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Is McCain a hypocrite when it comes to pork spending?

Senator Clinton helped secure more than $340 million worth of special projects (ie., pork spending) for her home state of New York last year alone, including a $1 million earmark request for a museum devoted to the Woodstock music festival. These figure places her among the top 10 Senate recipients of earmarks. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, placed at the bottom quarter of senators who seek earmarks. Obama sponsored a 2006 earmark to secure funds for the University of Chicago hospital in his home state . Both have been criticized by McCain. However, McCain sponsored a pork spending bill to direct $10 million over five years to create the William H. Rehnquist Center in his home state of Arizona - and McCain voted not present in the Senate last week rather than kill the $1 million earmark that Hillary requested. Senate approved a new pork spending ethics bill 83-14 to put an end to this nonsense. All 14 senators who voted against the bill were Republicans.

Public Comments

1. I don't know, he has never invited me to a pig pickin' in North carolina.