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On the recordMarch 24, 1994
I am calling it earmarking. America calls it pork. This bill, Mr. Chairman, has in it for the first time an established way for the Congress to simply authorize renovation and construction of new facilities, and do it in a way that we do not earmark them, that we no longer will do that. We cannot have it both ways. We cannot be against pork and then be against a process which the gentleman from California has put in this bill, and the gentleman from Florida would take out, a process which just establishes an institutional way to get on with the business of upgrading existing education facilities and building new ones. If we want to continue to force Members to come to the floor and earmark projects, which is the wrong way to do it, then vote yes on the gentleman's amendment.
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John Williams
Montana
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the issue of earmarking in appropriation bills during a House debate.

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