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EDITORIAL: Perfuming the barnyard.(Editorial)

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)

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Mar. 4--Arizona Sen. John McCain is sponsoring two interesting pieces of legislation. One mounts a direct assault on congressional earmarks, those little morsels of home district pork that lawmakers slip into unrelated spending bills. The other steers $10 million to the University of Arizona to launch an academic center honoring the late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Yes, McCain does seem to be saying to himself: Stop me before I sin again. The first proposal, though, does make sense. Republican McCain and a few bipartisan co-sponsors unveiled it recently, weeks after Congress passed a $453 billion defense bill that included money for the Iraq and ...

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