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Jeff Flake: “My office has a timeline, actually, if anyone is interested, and when we requested the list of earmarks, when we finally…”

On the recordMay 10, 2007
My office has a timeline, actually, if anyone is interested, and when we requested the list of earmarks, when we finally got it, what we were told by which office, and I can tell you this is no way to run a process, particularly given the recent history of problems that we have had in this regard. And that is why I am concerned, and that is why I feel we can't do that in an open session like this. We have to go to secret session.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Discussing concerns about the process of handling earmarks.

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