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BARACK OBAMA, President-elect of the United States: We are going to ban all earmarks, the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review. We will put information about where money is being spent online so that the American people know exactly where their precious tax dollars are going and whether we are hitting our marks.
From the transcript of the Jim Lehrer News Hour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/news_summaries/2009/01/summary_06.html
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