Jeff Flake: “I think it's important when Members are voting on this earmark and whether to retain it that we have to know what we…”

“I think it's important when Members are voting on this earmark and whether to retain it that we have to know what we know and know what we don't know. We don't know if this center even exists. We are appropriating money for a center where the Appropriations Committee that has a responsibility to vet this earmark can't even tell us here if this even exists. We don't know that. We're voting on an earmark where in the report it says it goes to the center, but here in the certification letter it mentions Concurrent Technology, a private company. Which is it? If we don't know these facts, we don't know what's going on here, I would say the thing to do is to vote this down, to actually vote for the amendment and wait until the Appropriations Committee actually has time to scrub and to vet these earmarks a little more carefully.”