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If character is what we do when we think nobody is looking, then congressional leaders responsible for the 3,500-plus-page Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 have a lot of explaining to do. They should start by telling us why they posted their “omnibus spending bill” on the Internet only hours before voting on it and in a format that made searching the text laborious, at best. The bill combines 11 regular appropriations bills funding government’s day-to-day operations that should have been passed in October, along with money for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The rush to passage is because the government has been operating on a temporary continuing resolution for nearly two months, the Pentagon says it will soon have to furlough thousands of civil servants and Congress wants to go home before Christmas.

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