Recent scandals have not diminished lawmakers' appetite for such spending, but now they must openly defend their projects on the House floor - a new experience.
Other Communists openly defend Stalin as a great leader.
They may shake their heads with a sneaky grin, but they won't openly defend these practices.
He has also openly defended honour killings on several occasions.
Scaloni openly defended the players whose contracts were going to run out in 2006 or 2007 and asked for negotiations.
In 1963 he openly defended the first Italian conscientious objector, Giuseppe Gozzini.
Rather than openly defend the abuses, House Republicans retaliated with a cowardly, backdoor repeal of the new rules.
Individual story tellers would openly defend their tastes in a debate that grew into a metafictional consideration.
Western countries vigorously and openly defended them.
