Tom Feeney: “I was one of the outspoken critics, even of Republican earmarks like the Bridge to Nowhere. But I have to tell you, you…”

“I was one of the outspoken critics, even of Republican earmarks like the Bridge to Nowhere. But I have to tell you, you have got to give credit where credit is due, when they will stand up and say, we are not going to have earmarks. I thought, you know what, I can live by that policy if every other Member of the House can, or we are going to have transparent earmarks; everybody has to be honest about what they are spending the money on. I want to read to you the definition from The Citizens Against Government Waste. An earmark is any proposal that does any one of the following seven things; if you do one of them, you are an earmark. This is important, because we are facing tomorrow the largest earmark in the history of the world under this definition that everybody uses, if you do any one of these things. If you are requested by only one Chamber of Congress. This bill tomorrow is only going to be requested by the U.S. House, not the Senate.”