Quote of the Day (NYT 3/28/09)

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Sen. Mary Landrieu, LA, on earmark spending, in light of the $190,000, secured for a community center in New Orleans to be built by a nonprofit group founded by her brother. The money was allocated (even though the project is defunct:


“We have to be careful about just jumping to the conclusion that agencies know better and that federal bureaucrats who have never stepped in a place know better than officials who have literally campaigned there door to door,” the senator said. “On the other hand, there have been some gross abuses to the system.”

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