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January 5, 2013 10:41 pm PST

Commemorative coins are sneaky pork

You know those cool commemorative coins that the US Mint keeps issuing? Turns out that they're a handy way for Congress to get around the ban on porky earmarks for their home district. As reported last April in The Foundry: Heres how it works: In June of last year, Rep. Peter Roksam (R-IL) introduced legislation [...]


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