John Murtha: “The U.S. can not accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. It's time to bring the troops home.”

Every one of these earmarks are competitively granted under the regulations of the Defense Department. We depend on them to competitively check them over, and they do.

Let me mention to the gentleman, we have a $459 billion bill. We look at every one. We ask the Members to vet them. Our staff vets them. We go over every single earmark. We don't apologize for them because we think the Members know as much…

I don't represent Sherwin-Williams. I don't know what paint company you represent, but we know they are a very qualified contractor.

Let me tell you, we have added, we have added all kinds of money for body armor, for paint, for the gentleman from Ohio, predecessors, one of your predecessors was always looking for new ways, new developments. Small business has been the…