Those 2,966 earmarks are a symptom of a disease that is preventing our troops from getting the tools they need to prosecute the war on terror.
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They're a little late to the parade, but I still think it's an important step to make sure this whole sort of embarrassing era has ended.
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It's a challenge. We're really trying to get blood out of a stone, politically.
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