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Jeff Flake: “to end this debate tonight on these earmarks, I would just say that there has not been one earmark that has been…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2007
to end this debate tonight on these earmarks, I would just say that there has not been one earmark that has been challenged here tonight that isn't going to a valuable organization as far as I'm concerned. The question is not is there value in that organization or is there value in what this aquarium or what this historic site is doing. The question is should we be paying for it at the Federal level. And I think that's what taxpayers have a hard time with, and I think they should, particularly given the fiscal problems that we're having at the Federal level.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona
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Discussing the issue of federal funding for earmarks during a debate.

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