quote:In a bigger shift from his campaign pledge to end earmarks, he tells the Wall Street Journal that they are a bad "symbol" of easy spending but that he will fight for Kentucky's share of earmarks and federal pork, as long as it's doled out transparently at the committee level and not parachuted in in the dead of night. "I will advocate for Kentucky's interests," he says.
Rand Paul has tempered his anti-earmark rhetoric, before even getting to Washington.
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