Maybe this is why Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) wasn’t too eager to put his earmark disclosures out in a useful form-so uneager that he was tops in our earmark disclosure hall of shame.

Cochran made 637 earmark requests. Six hundred thirty-seven. That’s one senator, making more earmark requests than many entire states’ delegations.

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