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December 13, 2006 9:23 a.m.
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Just about everyone is holding their collective breath to see how serious Democrats are about earmark reform. So when Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), the man who put the pork in “pork barrel,” announces he’s going to forgo this year’s earmarks for his beloved West Virginia, that’s a huge symbolic gesture.

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