for lunch at some of america's schools. republican senator tom coburn of oklahoma yesterday releasing a report that shows earmarks meant for worthy causes were actually spent on questionable needs like thousands of dollars in earmarks for a mariachi program. really? joining us right now is the media director for citizens against government waste. leslie page. good morning to you, leslie. >> good morning, steve. thanks for having me. great to have you. we'll detail some of these programs but essentially what we're talking about is this has been labelled an education slush fund, hasn't it? >> right. first of all, let's give senator coburn a big round of applause for doing this because his staff has done some crack work on this. but what he's focusing on is two programs. two programs at the department of education so this is federal money. one is called the fund to improve post secondary education. the other one is the fund to improve education. and both of these funds have become just giant slush funds and, you know, they've crammed

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