Mike Conaway: “I have also heard they are going to wipe out all the earmarks. It will…”

On the recordJanuary 29, 2007

I have also heard they are going to wipe out all the earmarks. It will be their definition of an earmark, and it will be interesting to see which earmarks really get zeroed out and which ones don't and how they parse that definition between the two in order to keep the ones they want and peel out the ones that they think are wasteful spending, and it will be interesting where those earmarks impact and which districts are the ones that really get peeled out.

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Discussing the potential impact of proposed changes to earmark definitions.

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