[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15861-15862]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TRANSPARENCY IN EARMARKS

  (Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida asked and was given permission to

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address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Speaker, for the last 2 days, 
I've sat on the floor waiting to introduce and have debated an 
amendment that I have.
  And what that amendment does is that amendment provides an additional 
$89 million to go toward building the border fence. That fence is to 
keep out those people who may be criminals, who may be terrorists, who 
America was promised that we would build the fence.
  What has all of the delay been? Let me tell you what the delay has 
been. The delay has been about your tax dollars.
  I've got a dollar bill here in a clear transparent folder. It's about 
transparency of earmarks. It's about the fact that we should be voting 
on bills where we know what that earmark is, what those earmarks are, 
regardless.
  Now, here's the way it was last year when we voted on appropriations 
bills. We knew where those earmarks were. We knew who introduced them.
  This is what it is this year. It is a hidden appropriation pool that 
we will not know who this money's going to.

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