Barack Obama actually said...

Earmarks have been used as a vehicle for waste and fraud and abuse. Projects have been inserted at the 11th hour without review and sometimes without merit in order to satisfy the political or personal agendas of a given legislator.

Context

President Obama discusses the misuse of earmarks in government spending.

03/10/2009

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