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Article: EDITORIAL: Stopping The Pork: Mccain Doing Well To Fight The Barrel.(Editorial)
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- The Monitor (McAllen, TX)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2005
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Byline: The Monitor, McAllen, Texas
Dec. 28--Say what you will about Arizona Sen. John McCain -- and we've said on occasion that he takes his reputation as a maverick Republican to unfortunate extremes -- but he's been admirably consistent as Congress' most vocal anti-pork barrel crusader. No member of Congress has been as dogged in exposing the feeding frenzy at the federal trough, and in using his congressional staff, Web site and floor speeches to blow the whistle when colleagues shortcut the appropriations process in self-serving ways. McCain did it again last week, dissecting with surgical precision a $453.5 billion fiscal 2006 Defense Appropriations ...