Tough Murtha.
2006: “This is a place where we really need to throw up the shades and pull back the curtains, and…have the fullest possible disclosure, and it has to be on earmarks in appropriations, in authorizations, and in taxation.”–Nancy Pelosi.
2007: “After a recent House vote, [Representative John] Murtha stopped for a moment in the lobby adjacent to the House floor, just steps from his corner, to take a question from a reporter about the difficulty of piecing together which members got how much money for which projects in his bill. Murtha answered abruptly before walking away: ‘So, you have to work,’ he said. ‘Tough shit.’”–Congressional Quarterly.