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Districts and states submit requests, basically these are the project that is we need loans for. and they invision it as a bank to deal with larger scale projects but i dont see why it couldnt work for smaller scale projects because its been done through the earmarking process and also reliant on seniority and whose vote needed to be gotten rather than which projects actually made sense and were the best use of taxpayer dollars and a direction we should be going in. and we have never -- we have ...

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I have a track record of being a strong consistent conservative. for mitt romney to attack me as not being conservative is laughable. mitt romney when i was out there fighting no child left behind he was out there supporting and going planned parenthood fundraisers. im standing up here as the consistent conservative in this race who with president bushs biggest initiative of his campaign that the american public supported along with 90 other u.s. senators. it was a mistake, i admit it and unfort...

Massachusetts, $300 million. $400 million. what happened, there was abuse. when abuse happened, i said we should stop the earmarking process. but i did say there were good earmarks and bad earmarks. >> i would put a ban on earmarks. i think it opens the door excessive spending. spending on projects that dont need to be done. there are a lot of projects that have been voted for. you voted for the bridge to nowhere. while i was fighting to save the olympics, you were fighting to save the bridge to...

Romney on romney care, and sticking to that subject, he moved it off to the massachusetts balanced budget. thats not anything that i think voters are going to care about in the end. thats the problem with what santorum did last night. he was in the weeds a good bit last night defending earmarks, talking about the earmarking process, talking about why he endorsed senator specter over pat toomey. i mean, i just think those moments were not very helpful to advancing rick santorums message which, yo...

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And so it was light outside, but something else went wrong. visibility only two miles at times, and maybe that was not enough for something to be avoided. >> yes, the national transportation safety board is only beginning this investigation. thank you, chad. ted stevens was the longest serving republican senator in u.s. history. joe johns covered stevens for year, and tell us about this individual, this u.s. senator. >> very old school. he came from a completely different era and when you look...

They were getting deep into the history of legislation and legislative maneuvering and trading folks in the senate. >> whose earmark with the bridge to nowhere and the olympics? id like to never hear about those again. >> our friend simon said rick santorum sounded like he studied at the bob dole school of debating. >> here he is. santorum trying to defend his record as a former washington senator -- not the baseball team -- who championed earmarks by claiming romney took earmarks for the olympi...

Party? or was last night a good night -- >> i think it was a good night for president obama last night. and i hate to say it, because i think it is critical for the future of our country that the my party defeat him this november. but when i watched the debate, the first question from an actual citizen was about the deficit and debt and president obama is driving us off a financial cliff. and immediately, it went to earmarks and whos the washington insider and who helped out in the 2002 olympics...

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