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Charities Enlist Help to Review Legislation

Government watchdog groups have joined forces on a project that asks citizens to help investigate Congressional earmarks.

Earmark Watch builds on databases that Taxpayers for Common Sense, in Washington, has created, which list thousands of measures inserted into 2008 spending bills by members of Congress to direct dollars to a specific...

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