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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 don't see why it couldn't work for smaller scale projects because it's 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 never said before that hurricane victim, tornado victim, flood victim, we will help you if we can...

that disaster. more people hurt, more people killed today across syria. this is the city of homa where nine people died today in street battles between security forces and anti-government fighters. violence across the country has not let up, despite today's nationwide vote over whether to change syria's constitution. nelson mandela, the founding father of democracy in south africa is out of the hospital. he was discharged today after undergoing treatment for an abdominal ailment. a family member says it was hernia surgery. he's 93 years old. he was in prison for 27 years for figh...

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. i'm standing up here as the consistent conservative in this race who with president bush's 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 unfortunately governor romney continues to support those big government programs. megyn: i wanted to tal...

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 don't 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 nowhere. >> they are trying to get the job that teddy roosevelt once had. and teddy kennedy and ro...

Romney on romney care, and sticking to that subject, he moved it off to the massachusetts balanced budget. that's not anything that i think voters are going to care about in the end. that's 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 santorum's message which, you know, he has a pretty good message on blue collar workers and how he's going to cure the econom...