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- Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending. -- Todd Tiahrt
- Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national priorities. -- Marsha Blackburn
- Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington. -- John Boehner
- I have never been opposed to earmarks. -- Judd Gregg
- Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks. -- Rand Paul
- I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks. -- John McCain
- I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us. -- Sylvia Browne
- In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species. -- Jef I. Richards
- I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks. -- Claire McCaskill
- It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target! -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. -- Eric Hoffer
- We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets. -- Eric Cantor
- During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge. -- Michele Bachmann
- The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.' -- Tom Coburn
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