Fox News: And the king of pork is … Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS). The Mississippi Republican ranks at the top this year of the Citizens Against Government Waste’s list of congressional earmarkers.
Cochran, the ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, is typically a leading pork-seeker and in 2010 had his name on 240 projects worth $490.2 million The runner-up was Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, with 151 projects worth $387.5 million.
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