I think we need to fix that. I know we have been through a problem of earmarks that received a lot of justified criticism. Our response was to abandon this responsibility entirely. I think that was an overreaction.
Whitehouse critiques the abandonment of earmarks and calls for a better approach.
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This is waste, and it treats a national memorial to President Kennedy as if it were a private renovation project.
We should send any big windfall for Big Oil back to the hardworking people who paid for it at the gas pump.
We're actually somewhat generous about letting [the oil companies] keep half of the excess profits, but we want at least half of it to go back.
I think it's super important that we win that seat so that we can put an end to the wild cost increases and rampant corruption that the Senate right now is indulging.
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