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How Earmarks Can Strengthen Congress

The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics referenced in Washington Monthly.

The Ethics Center was referenced in this article discussing the potential of earmarks to encourage cross-party cooperation in Congress.

Politics today is “more focused on the acquisition of power and less on the pursuit of truth, more enamored of sensationalism and less attentive to the deeper issues of our times, more interested in personalities and less in the plausibility of the policies these persons advocate.”

The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics referenced in Washington Monthly.

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