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BYLINE: Ari Natter
Introducing Mary Peters in the Senate after her nomination to be transportation secretary, Sen. John S. McCain referred to his fellow Arizonian''s former career as a hog butcher.
"She made her living by cutting pork," McCain told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in 2006.
"This background should come in very handy," McCain said. "I urge her to rely heavily on her past pork-cutting experience as she works to carry out her new responsibilities."
Cutting pork-barrel spending has been a career-long crusade for McCain, and he''s frequently put federal transportation funding on the block. That ...