03/23/2009
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"Thank you. I have used this analogy before, I think, in this Subcommittee or in this Committee, and in our experience in Delaware, we had something akin to earmarks."
"We finally, with the leadership of this man to my left and Senator McCain and this President, we basically pulled the plug on the F-22."
"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 i..."
"If we were to restore earmarks in that limited way with a lot of transparency, the idea of having the legislation before us, actually signed into law, I think would be helpful in an earmarks restored ..."