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Article: Obama to release new rules on earmarks; President will lay down 'some very clear lines'.(NATION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 3, 2009
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Byline: Jon Ward, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Obama, who has been criticized for his plans to sign a pork-laden $410 billion omnibus spending package moving through Congress this week, will release new rules for earmarks prior to signing the bill, the White House said Monday.
The president is going to draw some very clear lines about what's going to happen going forward, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. The rules of the road going forward for those many appropriations bills that will go through Congress and come to his desk will be done differently.
Mr. Gibbs said privately that the president would announce the new rules - ...