John Yarmuth actually said...

My view has always--I was stunned by that. My view has always been that the constitutional argument ran in the other direction, that there was something very questionable about this kind of arbitrary denial of the power of the purse.

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Yarmuth defends earmarking as a legitimate exercise of congressional power.

04/28/2021

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