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Conservatives upset that ‘Prince of Pork’ will rule spending panel

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High-profile conservatives are questioning the decision by House Republicans to place Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), a veteran lawmaker with a history of earmarking, in charge of a key spending committee.

Richard Viguerie, a longtime conservative activist, said Rogers’s election as the next Appropriations Committee chairman (along with Michigan GOP Rep. Fred Upton’s selection as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee) “should cause all conservatives and Tea Partiers to doubt how serious the Republican leadership is about cleaning up the culture of waste, seniority and corruption in Congress.”

“Grassroots conservatives are unhappy with the status quo in Washington, and Speaker-designate Boehner needs to balance this slap in the face with something to show conservatives that he is truly committed to reversing the size of government,” Viguerie wrote in a blog post Thursday.

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