Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

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.

Context

Whitehouse critiques the abandonment of earmarks and calls for a better approach.

01/09/2018

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