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Earmarks in House spending bills increase over last year’s versions
ANALYSIS — Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, step aside: there’s a new champion House earmarker, and it’s Kentucky Republican James R. Comer, the powerful Oversight and Accountability panel chair. Comer’s $241.3 million haul puts him way out front in the rankings …