Jeff Flake: “I just will close on this one, saying again this is one of many museums that we are funding here. We simply can't fund…”

“I just will close on this one, saying again this is one of many museums that we are funding here. We simply can't fund them all. At some point it would be nice to give the taxpayers a gift and actually say we're not going to fund a particular earmark. We did it a couple of weeks ago. This is not an idle process. We've had one occasion already where I've come to offer an earmark, and the sponsor of the earmark beat me to the floor and offered an amendment to revoke his own earmark. So obviously there needed to be more vetting of that earmark. I would assume that there are others like it. So this is a process we should go through. I would urge support of the amendment. Mr. Chairman, I yield back.”