Check out the video below. Rep. John Campbell gave John Murtha a lesson on why the pork-barrel spending process is fundamentally flawed. This is arguably the best debate on the House floor that I've ever seen about earmarking. Jeff Flake provides an excellent encore, too.
Afterwards, Campbell recapped the debate on his blog.
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