Berry calls earmarks, Democrats’ rhetoric

Michael Wickline, Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported that U. S. Rep. Marion Berry (D-AR) defended congressional earmarks, saying they aren’t a controversy to him. “Being an appropriator, I like earmarks, make no apologies for them,” to about 140 people at a Political Animals Club luncheon in Little Rock. Berry said the last appropriations bill that Congress passed totaled $ 2. 7 trillion and included $ 17 billion in earkmarks. “I am perfectly willing to pay the deal on anything I ever put in one of those bills, and there are a lot of good things that have come from it,” Berry said. “The alternative would be to turn all spending decisions over to the administration, whoever that might be, and that is not a comforting thought at all to me.”

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