House ignoring pledge over pet projects

Kind of like asking all the thieves to find honor.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- Just two weeks after the House passed a reform bill requiring lawmakers to attach their names to pet projects, GOP leaders are advancing spending bills containing billions of dollars in such parochial "earmarks" whose sponsors remain anonymous.

Most lawmakers, like Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., who obtained $11 million for a child development center at Eglin Air Force Base in Pensacola, are happy to take credit for their earmarks when asked. Others, like Martin Sabo, D-Minn., immediately put out news releases trumpeting hometown projects like a $1 million sewer system upgrade for Minneapolis.