Judd Gregg: “My point was that this will increase the piggy bank available to nondefense discretionary to be used for earmarking…”

“My point was that this will increase the piggy bank available to nondefense discretionary to be used for earmarking because it will take defense dollars and move them over to nondefense discretionary accounts. I don't argue with the argument that there is a significant number of earmarks in the defense budget. I hope that as part of reading his Defense Department earmarks--which I will be happy to agree exists--he will at the same time list the earmarks that were added into the Labor-HHS bill over the last 4, 5, 6 years as a result of literally billions of dollars being taken out of the Defense Department to pump up the Labor-HHS bill. That is where the earmarks occurred.”