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Old 19-October-2007, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by ToSeek View Post
Good! Though I'm curious who it will go to now:

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Senators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania), the floor managers of the appropriations bill, accepted Vitter's proposal and agreed to move the funds to a different project in Louisiana when the bill is in its conference committee.
If they had left it alone, I wouldn't be surprised if it would go to the courts. They don't want to have a court battle over that little amount of money.
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