Blunt: I want my earmarks

Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo, is unhappy with President Barack Obama's statement during last night's State of the Union message that he would veto any bills with earmarks.

The president doesn't understand the constitution, Blunt said. Congress is responsible for spending.

Blunt said today that he agreed with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that congressional spending should be the domain of Congress and that the ban on earmarks would "give the president too much power."


"I think that any real student of the Constitution in this country would come to the conclusion that the Constitution believed that the legislative branch would decide how to spend the money and the president would execute that faithfully and efficiently," Blunt said in a telephone news conference with reporters.

Isn't the presidential veto a part of the Constitution?