As Mark Kirk campaigns for the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama, the Republican congressman casts himself as a scourge of the pork-barrel, special-interest congressional spending known as "earmarks."
Henry C. Jackson, Associated Press Writer, Boston Globe: Politics
Thu, 12/10/2009 - 1:21am
As Mark Kirk campaigns for the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama, the Republican congressman casts himself as a scourge of the pork-barrel, special-interest congressional spending known as "earmarks."