I thank you for yielding, because one of the fundamental points I want to make is that we wanted to err on the side of transparency. Staff tells me that the issue of that particular earmark, weeks before we marked up the bill, was fully discussed on a bipartisan basis. I know it was discussed when we marked it up because there were a number of amendments that were brought to the markup.
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