John Campbell: “this particular earmark is for a swimmer detection sonar network for $1.5 million. The company developing this…”

“this particular earmark is for a swimmer detection sonar network for $1.5 million. The company developing this technology is in New Hampshire. Interestingly, there are about three other companies that do a similar technology or do something intended to do the same thing, which is detect people swimming in the water up towards a ship, at least three others that we have determined, and one of which is currently being used by the Coast Guard that doesn't use sonar but already is in place and in effect. Mr. Chairman, I could ask the same series of questions of the chairman of the committee on this earmark that I did on the last. I won't do that, because the point of this, frankly, is not that this particular earmark is particularly egregious, nor, frankly, that the previous one that I brought up was particularly egregious. I believe that there are literally hundreds of earmarks like these offered by many members in this Defense Appropriations Committee.”