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Jeff Flake: “The truth is we went from about, as the chairman of the Appropriations Committee often points out, from zero earmarks in…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2007
The truth is we went from about, as the chairman of the Appropriations Committee often points out, from zero earmarks in Labor-HHS to some 1,400 last week. Much of that was under my party. I think Democrats are as much to blame probably as Republicans are. The difference is as Republicans, we pretend to stand for limited government. We should be saying this isn't what we should be doing. If the agencies are out of control, we need to rein them in through the oversight process rather than to try to compete with them in terms of wasteful spending.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona
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Discussing the increase in earmarks in Labor-HHS funding and the need for government oversight.

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