this year the only one we know for sure, senator brian shatz, no relation, had the east-west center in hawaii with the entire budget. they had a north-south center and federal funding was cut off and it still exists. so the east-west center should go out on its own as well and because of one member of congress that this money went in there. >> there are some people who defend earmarks. in accoufact, former virginia republican tom davis was on this program on monday and offered his defense of earmarks. here's what he had to say. >> earmarks are project desing nations and it's an article 1 house of representative and if you look at the 150 years of the republic and almost every project that went through was earmarked and there was an earmark and congress would decide and it's the house of representatives and earmarks do two other things. they allow members to personalize their districts to show that there's a reason to keep them around because they can bring back certain r jects if they have to go through the bureaucratic model otherwise and third, it makes the default vote yes. and it m