Did McCain pull out his own earmarks?
MCain did not have any earmarks so no need to pull any out
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