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Pete Sessions's Blimp Flies Into Storm

The Politico:
Rep. Pete Sessions — the chief of the Republicans' campaign arm in the House — says on his website that earmarks have become "a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people."
Yet in 2008, Sessions himself steered a $1.6 million earmark for dirigible research to an Illinois company whose president acknowledges having no experience in government contracting, let alone in building blimps.
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