Tom Carper actually said...

I think on earmarks the argument--I do not know if Senator Levin made it while I was out of the room, but if we have a grant program, we will say it is a transportation program, so we have like $100 in it, and somebody comes along and we have like a dollar's worth--a hundred dollars goes out for earmarks around the country.

03/14/2011

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