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You've defend pork barrel spending in the past. >> what i've said isour role as a member of congress, if you look at the constitution, is to appropriate money. of course if you appropriate mone youe going to say whe that money's going to go. and historically congress has taken the role of, you know, allocating thoseesources, and m demint who led the charge on pork barrel spending, earmarked things for years and years. so what happened, after i left congress, was budgets began to explode. when i was in the senate, i voted for tough budget i voted for restrictions on spending, and made sure that...

Spending in the past. >> what i've said isour role as a member of congress, if you look at the constitution, is to appropriate money. of course if you appropriate mone youe going to say whe that money's going to go. and historically congress has taken the role of, you know, allocating thoseesources, and m demint who led the charge on pork barrel spending, earmarked things for years and years. so what happened, after i left congress, was budgets began to explode. when i was in the senate, i voted for tough budget i voted for restrictions on spending, and made sure that that didn' happen. and as...

Appropriate money. of course if you appropriate mone youe going to say whe that money's going to go. and historically congress has taken the role of, you know, allocating thoseesources, and m demint who led the charge on pork barrel spending, earmarked things for years and years. so what happened, after i left congress, was budgets began to explode. when i was in the senate, i voted for tough budget i voted for restrictions on spending, and made sure that that didn' happen. and as president, i propose cutting $5 trillion over five years. i propose we're going to balance the budget in at least ...

The budget in at least five years, hopefully sooner. so if you're looking for someone who's voted for tough budgets, voted for spending restraints, and -- >> but that wasn't my question. i mean do you regret supporting earmarks when you did? >> i don't regret going out at the time and making sure that the people of pennsylvania, who i was elected to republican, got resources back in to the state. >> so you're saying that's okay but if a budget is tighter it's not? >> no. what happened was abuse. there was abuse of this process. and i agreed with that, that there was an abuse, and it was leadin...

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