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Pork Sells Bailout

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Who says you can't buy votes? The House on Friday passed a far-reaching and historic plan to bail out the nation's financial system. The vote for passage of the Senate-amended bill - 263 to 171 - was the result of strong lobbying on the part of the White House and other supporters of the bill all week, following the House defeat of a similar measure on Monday - a defeat that shocked the markets and congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle. The rest of the story is here.  Why is loading a bill with pork with the intent to influence an official decision not bribery? 

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).

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