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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110707:07:26:00

But been a bipartisan kind of fest. if you were the ranking member or the sub committee chairman, you got money back to your district. it was a seniority thing. he made it part of the ear marks exploded an that s where the push back came from, but the situation that has developed is much worse than before. no more trance transparent si. these members of congress who are against ear marks are stuck sending letters to a white house of a different party, saying how about a little bit of money in my district. what you re saying is this is a law of unintended consequences with respect to ear mark reform. you re not getting rid of the money, you re just changing how it is spent. no, you are not going to get the federal government to stop dispersing money. people did say this at the time, they said this at the time, look, you re not going to change the fact that money is spent. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110707:03:26:00

Fest. if you were the ranking member or the sub committee chairman, you got money back to your district. it was a seniority thing. he made it part of the ear marks exploded an that s where the push back came from, but the situation that has developed is much worse than before. no more trance transparent si. these members of congress who are against ear marks are stuck sending letters to a white house of a different party, saying how about a little bit of money in my district. what you re saying is this is a law of unintended consequences with respect to ear mark reform. you re not getting rid of the money, you re just changing how it is spent. no, you are not going to get the federal government to stop dispersing money. people did say this at the time, they said this at the time, look, you re not going to change the fact that money is spent. ....

Money , Ear-marks , District , It-part , Seniority-thing , Ranking-member , Back , Fest , Sub-committee-chairman , Members , White-house , Republican-congress

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110707:00:26:00

It had always been political, but been a bipartisan kind of fest. if you were the ranking member or the sub committee chairman, you got money back to your district. it was a seniority thing. he made it part of the ear marks exploded an that s where the push back came from, but the situation that has developed is much worse than before. no more trance transparent si. these members of congress who are against ear marks are stuck sending letters to a white house of a different party, saying how about a little bit of money in my district. what you re saying is this is a law of unintended consequences with respect to ear mark reform. you re not getting rid of the money, you re just changing how it is spent. no, you are not going to get the federal government to stop dispersing money. people did say this at the time, they said this at the time, ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101018:08:35:00

Before i move on to some questioning? i would. the media has looked at senator bennett, the same editorial you quoted from talks about the despicable nature of senator bennett s comments that have been false, misleading and deetful. they talked about the sleaziest campaign in the history of state of colorado. on senator bennett s side, he talks about deep empathy for social security and he s on the commission on aging. he missed 92% of the meetings for the commission on aging. he talks about ear mark reform in 2009. in 2010, he doesn t bother getting one co-sponsor or moving the bill forward in any way but r runs on the fact that he is a good government earmark reformer. it s that kind of duplicity that colorado voters are sick of. you can deal with some of that but i want to move to another issue, which is the role of president obama in this campaign. he came out to campaign for you. back in february, this is what he said, talking about the ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101018:06:35:00

Before i move on to some questioning? i would. the media has looked at senator bennett, the same editorial you quoted from talks about the despicable nature of senator bennett s comments that have been false, misleading and deetful. they talked about the sleaziest campaign in the history of state of colorado. on senator bennett s side, he talks about deep empathy for social security and he s on the commission on aging. he missed 92% of the meetings for the commission on aging. he talks about ear mark reform in 2009. in 2010, he doesn t bother getting one co-sponsor or moving the bill forward in any way but r runs on the fact that he is a good government earmark reformer. it s that kind of duplicity that colorado voters are sick of. you can deal with some of that but i want to move to another issue, which is the role of president obama in this campaign. he came out to campaign for you. back in february, this is what he said, talking about the ....

Senator-bennett , Editorial , Talks , Questioning , Comments , Media , Nature , Colorado , Campaign , Meetings , Son-aging , Side