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Obama vows no earmarks on stimulus

RedState: Conservative News and Community found this 1/6/2009 on firstread.msnbc.msn.com

From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum On his second day in Washington, President-elect Obama met with his budget team and promised no earmarks will be in the stimulus plan.   "We are going to ban all earmarks -- the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review," he explained. "We will create an economic recovery oversight board made up of key administration officials and independent advisors to identify problems early and make sure we are doing all we can to solve ...