Jeff Flake: “Well, thank you, and I simply want to reiterate if I were to stand here and offer amendments that had no impact on my…”

“Well, thank you, and I simply want to reiterate if I were to stand here and offer amendments that had no impact on my district at all, if I ignored those that had an impact, then I could be accused of hypocrisy and doing things that simply have no impact on me. I have tried to make a point to offer amendments that do have an impact, and I have offered them in other bills as well, those that have an impact on both my district and on my State. I simply think that this process is out of control and we have to start on it. And I appreciate the gentleman from Hawaii. That was a very good explanation. I appreciate that hearings have been held on this, certainly more thoroughly than some of the other earmarks. But the case I would make is that simply I have made my case.”