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Mostly because members of Congress vote for bills like the omnibus that they might not ordinarily support but for the earmarks, inequitable, although we have not analyzed exactly who got them this time, the last time there was a list of members of Congress receiving earmarks, 51 percent of the earmarks and 61 percent of the money went to the members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, and they only constituted about 15 percent of the entire Congress.