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In an article titled "H.R. 3496: The Biggest Pork Barrel Earmark in History?", Tom Davis is said to have earmarked "$1.5 billion of federal revenues earned through offshore drilling to subsidize the deeply troubled Metro transit system serving the nation’s capital and his congressional district. If enacted, this earmark would be one of the largest ever passed—seven times larger than Alaska’s “Bridge to Nowhere” and twice as large as Mississippi’s “Train to Nowhere.”" Davis' website still boasts that he is "Chief sponsor of legislation that passed the House to overhaul the Metro system and provide an additional $1.5 billion for improvements."