Pointing out that Democrats gave House members fewer than 24 hours to review a 534-page transportation spending bill that is filled with 141 pages of earmarks, Republicans unsuccessfully attempted to block the legislation on Wednesday.

GOP members, led by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), raised a point of order against the conference measure on the transportation and housing appropriations bill.

“This place is out of control,” Boehner said.

Democrats have repeatedly said Republicans bent House rules during their 12-year reign of the lower chamber, most notably on their three-hour vote on the 2003 Medicare drug bill.

The Flake point of order was overcome by a Democratic motion to consider the bill by a vote of 197-186. All voting Republicans opposed the motion, along with Indiana freshman Democrats Joe Donnelly and Brad Ellsworth.

“The new majority doesn’t seem to get it. They came to power by criticizing Republican abuses, and were justified in doing so,” Flake said in a statement. “But now they are committing the same abuses.”

Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-N.Y.), a freshman who sits on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said on the floor that the spending bill makes “critical investments in our transportation infrastructure.”

GOP lawmakers said Democrats waived House-passed rules that allow the review of a bill at least 24 hours before a roll call vote, stating that certain parts — but not all — of the measure were posted online Tuesday at 7 p.m.

In his release, Flake said the bill is “loaded with pork projects such as $150,000 for the Atlanta Botanical Gardens in Atlanta; $275,000 for the Berkshire Music Hall in Pittsfield, Mass.; $400,000 to the Bel Alton High School Alumni Association in Bel Alton, Md. … $100,000 for Cooters Pond Park in Prattville, Ala.; $100,000 for the reuse of a Coca Cola Bottling plant in Romney, West Virginia … and $300,000 to the Houston Zoo in Houston, Texas.”

A Democratic spokesman on the House Appropriations Committee did not comment by the time this article was posted.