WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's top ally in the Senate Tuesday brusquely rejected the president's call for a ban on the practice of stuffing home state projects known as earmarks into spending bills.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the president "has enough power already" and that Obama's reported embrace Tuesday night of an earmark ban promoted by Republicans is just a "lot of pretty talk."
Reid made his remarks at a news conference in which he otherwise praised Obama in advance of Tuesday's State of the Union address.
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Earmarks ruin bills. To me it is nothing more than buying votes and should be banned.
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