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Everlasting Pork

Slush funds for the executive branch in authorization and appropriations bills are a big no-no, but if they are intended for Members and their staff to use, that would seem to be different.
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Slush funds for the executive branch in authorization and appropriations bills are a big no-no, but if they are intended for Members and their staff to use, that would seem to be different.

What I found in the House Armed Services Committee's defense authorization bill is described at Time's Battleland blog.

Winslow Wheeler

Winslow Wheeler is the former director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information.

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