Flake had more to say about earmarks on the floor of the House today:

NRO also gets word that Republican Study Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling and House conservatives will be attacking the bloated Homeland Security appropriations bill all afternoon with amendments to reduce or eliminate wasteful spending.

Most of these amendments will target homeland-security grants to states and localities that face minimal risk of terrorism. As the editors have pointed out before, there’s no good reason why New York state should get $4.97 per capita in anti-terror funding, as compared with $37.74 for Wyoming and $104.35 for the U.S. Virgin Islands.