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Look, We Know We Screwed Up When We Were In The Majority. We Fell In Love With Power. We Spent Way Too Much Money - Especially On Earmarks. There Was Too Much Corruption When We Ran This Place. We Were Guilty. And That's Why We Lost.

We've Had Town Hall Meetings, We've Witnessed Election After Election, In Which The American People Have Taken A Position On The President's Health Care Bill. And The Bottom Line Is The People Don't Like This Bill. They Don't Want It.

Again, The American People Expect Us To Do What They Are Doing. It's Tightening The Belt, It's Learning How To Do More With Less. That's A Reality Today, And We've Got To Do That In Order To Get The Private Sector Growing.

We Will Cut Programs, We Will Try To Rein In The Size Of The Bureaucracy. We Will Bring Federal Pay Scales That Have Become So Exaggerated Into Line With Market Rates.

We Know That Appropriators Will Fight These Cutbacks. But By Eliminating Earmarks, We Can Stop The Horse Trading That Grows Agency Budgets.