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Nancy Pelosi: “If I just might direct the record to another place, why don't we just leave this room today, forgetting the word…”

On the recordJune 20, 2007
If I just might direct the record to another place, why don't we just leave this room today, forgetting the word 'earmark.' This is legislatively directed spending, as opposed to executive spending.
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Nancy Pelosi
Democratic · California

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Nancy Pelosi comments on the terminology used around earmarks and spending.

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