Posted on 03/04/2009 2:31:08 PM PST by DBCJR
The Senate voted overwhelmingly to preserve thousands of earmarks in a $410 billion spending bill on Tuesday, brushing aside Sen. John McCain's claim that President Barack Obama and Congress are merely conducting business as usual in a time of economic hardship.
McCain's attempt to strip out an estimated 8,500 earmarks failed on a vote of 63-32. The Arizona senator's proposal also would have cut roughly $32 billion from the measure and kept spending at last year's levels in several federal agencies.
Last year's Republican presidential candidate said both he and Obama pledged during the campaign to "stop business as usual in Washington," and he quoted the president as having said he would go line by line to make sure money was spent wisely.
The White House has said that Obama intends to sign the legislation, casting it as leftover business from 2008. Spokesman Robert Gibbs pledged on Monday the White House will issue new guidelines covering earmarks for future bills.
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Did McCain pull out his own earmarks?
LOL That's some amazing objective journalism!
MCain did not have any earmarks so no need to pull any out
LOL That's some amazing objective journalism!
Did McCain pull out his own earmarks?
didn’t have any...
“Earmarks” are those Congressional funds specifically guided to the “pet projects” of elected representatives, also called “pork.”
John McCain is against earmarks and the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense says he has not requested any that they can find and report.
Senator Obama and Senator Joe Biden are a different story, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) requested 326 projects worth $860.6 million between FY2006 and FY2008, according to a Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) analysis of earmark requests disclosed by the Senator. Sen. Obama did not request any earmarks for FY2009.
The variance between this number and other published reports occurs because TCS did not include requests for four national projects appearing on Sen. Obama’s FY08 request list. TCS did not include these as earmarks in any of the FY08 lawmaker tabulations.
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The Senator averaged nearly $286.9 million per year in earmark requests over the period he requested earmarks. However, over his term in the U.S. Senate (including the year he did not request earmarks) his four year average was $215.1 million.
The earmark request numbers are higher than the dollar amount of earmarks obtained. As an example, of the $321.8 million requested by the senator in FY2008, the final appropriations bills contained $98.6 million of Senator Obama’s original requests. (continue reading at Peace and Freedom ‘08)
http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2008/09/earmarks-mccain-0-—obama-326.html
Sure, he's the voice of conservatism...he's just speaking in a thin, querulous, doddering sort of "I just crapped in my pants" voice.
McCain as the “voice of conservatism” ping!
Travesty
just like if he was elected!
“McCain, the voice of conservatism???? “
What a marxist might POSSIBLY consider a moderate conservative...maybe...conservative? no...you have to take in the viewpoint of the writer...
Very, very sorry. Forgot to do the br thingy.
Exactly...this guy has to open his mouth to look around...
Giggle. Thanks.
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