Rahm: Obama Will Agree to 9,000 Earmarks

President Barack Obama is set to sign a $410 billion spending bill with some 9,000 earmarks — a practice he repeatedly criticized on the campaign trail last year.

Dismissing the congressional pork as “last year’s business,’’ White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday that the president wasn’t happy with the earmarks. But, Emanuel said, Obama would nevertheless sign the bill.

Republicans criticized the increased spending and the abundance of earmarks, which account for $3.8 billion of the omnibus.

Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., speaking on ABC's "This Week," said the "fact that there are 9,000 earmarks in this bill and the fact that the vetting process just doesn't take place the way it should — we ought to stand up and draw the line right now and stop the waste." [READ MORE]