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Alan Grayson: “And having been lectured endlessly by the other side about the profundity of earmarks, we come across a bill here where…”

On the recordMay 22, 2013
And having been lectured endlessly by the other side about the profundity of earmarks, we come across a bill here where, in fact, it's an earmark for a foreign oil corporation. We are issuing to a foreign oil corporation a right-of-way that's valued at millions and millions of dollars when the other side tells us they're not in favor of earmarks. Stop the hypocrisy.
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Alan Grayson
Florida
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govinfo.gov
May 22, 2013

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