Pork

Do these people have any shame?

Schumer tried to stave off Coburn’s attack on the Senate floor. “I’m proud of the earmarks I’ve put in and I’m proud to defend them,” Schumer bragged. He argued the money would provide employment to poverty-stricken Americans in New York. “They are desperate to score jobs so their children can eat,” Schumer said.

Wow, invoking both poverty and children -- that's a political two-fer.