Mark Pryor actually said...

I know that we need to trim our budgets, and everybody agrees that we're spending too much, but highway safety and transportation safety is ...

We need to have a metric to make sure we know how many hours are driven, and that they're complying with the hours that are in the agreement...

Are we allocating enough resources? Do we have enough focus on those Mexican drug cartels?

I'm not sure I agree with y'all's definition of 'earmark,' but that's something that we should talk about further.