With all due respect, the letters requesting earmarks are not going to be made public. Let me explain what will be made public. I will take responsibility for every earmark that I recommend. But I have no intention of taking responsibility for somebody's pipe dream that we reject.
Discussing the transparency of earmark requests in Congress.
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