Missouri Congressman Sam Graves: $3 million was earmarked to promote Al Gore's book?

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A wiry man with a deep-lined face and closely cropped dark hair, [Congressman Sam] Graves wears a white shirt and a red tie with Dockers. He defends his votes against several energy bills, which he says were "full of garbage." He says he likes wind-power tax credits, but other earmarks have turned him off.

"There was an earmark in there for electric hybrid police cars for Hollywood, California," Graves says with contempt. "There was an earmark in there for a rainforest — an indoor rainforest — in Iowa. To study the effects of rainforests in Iowa."

The audience laughs.

"This was my favorite," Graves says sarcastically. "There was an earmark in there for $3 million to promote Al Gore's book in our schools. You know, the one about global warming. That was in the energy bill that everybody touted as such a wonderful thing and how evil everyone was who voted against it because it had wind-energy tax credits in it."