ANOTHER FISHY EARMARK DEAL: “Roll Call reports that a few months after Silvestre Reyes became chair of the House Intelligence Committee, he asked his brother to create a political action committee called BEST PAC. That committee received tens of thousands in donations from employees and clients of a lobbying firm. Those clients subsequently received millions in earmarks from Chairman Reyes.”

It’s almost as if there’s a quid pro quo on these things. And boy do those guys come cheap.