Here's a link to an interesting piece in CQ that leads with this slightly odd news: Club for Growth, the anti-tax group that was the major funder of former GOP Rep. Bill Sali's initial campaign for Congress in 2006, has given a perfect score to Sali's replacement, Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick, on its latest rating, the "RePork Card" rating House members' efforts to rein in public spending. While most Democrats fared poorly in the group's eyes, Minnick joined 21 Republicans in earning a perfect, 100 percent score for voting for all 68 amendments the group tallied that were aimed at stripping out earmarks from spending bills. The reason Minnick's in Congress now and not Sali: Minnick defeated Sali in the last election, denying him a second term.

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