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CNN) -- President Obama on Wednesday will talk about new guidelines aimed at cutting down the number of earmarks in appropriations legislation,
one day after the Senate passed a spending bill with nearly 9,000 earmarks, his administration said.
Obama may sign the bill into law behind closed doors rather than make a public show of it, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs
Top Democrats, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, have suggested lawmakers do not appreciate being dictated to on an issue that is a congressional prerogative.
Asked last week about the administration's plan to put forth guidelines to overhaul earmarks, Hoyer said flatly, "
I don't think the White House has the ability to tell us what to do."
He paused and quipped to reporters, "I hope you all got that down."
Obama's budget director made a vow Sunday that the president will bring a halt to pork-laden bills.
"[Such bills] will not happen when the president has the full legislative and appropriations process in place," Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told CNN's "State of the Union With John King."
He argued that the White House had little choice but to support the omnibus spending bill, which it inherited from the previous administration. "
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