Jeff Flake: “I was in my office and I heard the distinguished majority leader talk about personal responsibility and how we've got to…”

“I was in my office and I heard the distinguished majority leader talk about personal responsibility and how we've got to get this deficit and this debt under control. Personal responsibility begins with personal responsibility. There's an article that ran a couple of weeks in the Washington Post that mentioned one Member, who shall remain nameless, tucked in $96 million worth of pet projects into next year's Federal budget, almost all of which is in today's bill that we will deal with. Included in that was an earmark for a group called InTune. When asked what they would do with the grant, they said it might be music camps, it might be lessons, it might be how to be a DJ, it might be how to create a television show. The last earmark that this group got was spent on lesson plans for funk music. This is not personal responsibility. Were there not earmarks in this bill, we would likely have a continuing resolution that would fund at last year's levels, and we could start to get a grip on this debt and deficit that we have.”