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Earmark helps businesses, not troops
Sens. Charles Schumer, left, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Arlen Specter, far right, pushed for earmarks to force the military to keep buying an inferior product to protect troops.

ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES
Sens. Charles Schumer, left, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Arlen Specter, far right, pushed for earmarks to force the military to keep buying an inferior product to protect troops.
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