John Murtha: “We can't force a democracy on them. They're for democracy, they're against occupation.”

Let me just mention to the gentleman, 85 of the 90 members of the RSC receive, RSC which you just mentioned, receive earmarks in this total of this $436 million.

I think that is a perfect example of the way things work. When we see something that we think is not as valuable as something else is, we change it.

In this particular case we are looking for is sensors to protect against the type of thing that happened in Yemen with the USS Cole. We have a lot of people working on this, and we hope that we will be able to develop a system that will…

This is a very worthwhile project. Let me say to the gentleman, you see the number of hearings we have had, and the number of earmarks. Our staff went over every one of these earmarks very carefully. It's not on our highest priority list…