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Jeff Flake: “This is not a parliamentary ruse here. This is a response to a parliamentary ruse. The parliamentary ruse is…”

On the recordNovember 8, 2007
This is not a parliamentary ruse here. This is a response to a parliamentary ruse. The parliamentary ruse is air-dropping earmarks into a bill and then waiving all points of order against or waiving all points of order against that bill so all we can do here is raise a point of order against the rule itself. So the parliamentary ruse here was actually used by the majority party to hide these earmarks, in particular a $3 million earmark for golf in the Defense bill.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Discussing the use of earmarks in a defense bill during a House floor debate.

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