Originally Posted by
paladin
Tom Schatz, president of Citizen's Against Government Waste remarked when Mr. Stevens left the Senate. “While his friend Senator Robert Byrd was called ‘the king of pork,’ Ted Stevens was the emperor of earmarks. Since we started counting in 1991, Senator Stevens has accumulated 1,452 projects worth $3.4 billion. That is a record amount.”
Earmarks are not a crime.