House Majority Leader-elect Eric Cantor (R-Va.) made clear Thursday the new GOP majority wouldn’t tolerate any earmarks next year — a rebuke to rank-and-file Republicans who have complained about the ban on pork-barrel projects.
“There will be no earmarks in the 112th Congress. Period,” Cantor wrote on Twitter.
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