Clinton & Obama Love Them Earmarks

J.J. Jackson* | February 19, 2008

Filed Under General Politics, The Constitution, The Democrats, The Republicans, Unconstitutional Acts, Unconstitutional Spending

Want to know where your tax dollars are going? Ask Senator Clinton and Senator Obama. They’ve done a good job spiriting it away.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure more than $340 million worth of home-state projects in last year’s spending bills, placing her among the top 10 Senate recipients of what are commonly known as earmarks, according to a new study by a nonpartisan budget watchdog group.Working with her New York colleagues in nearly every case, Clinton supported almost four times as much spending on earmarked projects as her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), whose $91 million total placed him in the bottom quarter of senators who seek earmarks, the study showed.

The good news for John McCain is that he had $0 in earmark spending according to this report.

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