John Mccain Earmarks

Maple Syrup Research Industry Fires Back At John McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- On its face, it does seem absurd. Buried in a trillion-plus-dollar omnibus spending bill is a line requesting $165,000 for maple-syrup r...

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John McCain Calls For More Sweeping Ban On Earmarks

Posted 05.25.2011

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At the end of a week when House Republicans agreed to suspend all forms of earmark carve-outs on next year's spending bills, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz....

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Why Isn't Senator Coburn Going After This Wasteful Spending?

William A. Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Noticeably absent from Coburn or McCain's list of suggested cuts is the failed abstinence-only-until-marriage funding that remains in the bill.

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Top 10 Lies, Non-truths, Half-truths, Stretches, Reaches and Fibs Proving McCain Will Say Anything to Be President

Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 05.25.2011

This is a compilation of statements and allegations made by McCain or campaign surrogates that have been refuted, supported by the proof that they are mostly, partially, or completely false.

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Make Them Famous and Know Their Names?

Michael Seitzman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Well, McCain didn't make them famous, did he? Not the members of either party who shoved their crap into this bailout bill. See the problem?

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Flashback: Steve Carrell Nails McCain On Pork-Barrelling

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Back when the media was allowed to question him, a certain sharp-eyed journalist caught McCain on not always being so maverickly anti-earmark.

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McCain Was Against Palin Before He Was For Her

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of John McCain's main selling points as a government reformer is that the Arizona Senator sure hates him some earmarks. He hates them so much tha...

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McCain Voted For Earmark He Rails Against In Ad

The Huffington Post via FactCheck.Org | Posted 05.25.2011

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FactCheck.Org reports that John McCain's "Outrageous" ad: Republican presidential candidate John McCain cites three absurd-sounding examples of pork-...

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McCain Talks Economy On CNN

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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John McCain appeared on today's CNN American Morning, ostensibly to talk economic policy with John Roberts. Over the course of the discussion, howeve...

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McCain's Fantasy War On Earmarks

Washington Post | Michael Dobbs | Posted 05.25.2011

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John McCain boasts that he can save $100 billion a year "immediately" by eliminating the so-called earmarks that legislators attach to spending bills ...

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Clinton Requests $2.3 Billion In Earmarks

The Hill | Manu Raju and Kevin Bogardus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received by...

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Obama, Clinton Join Earmarks Moratorium

Politico | David Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011

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After months of partisan sniping, the great earmarks debate in Congress may be collapsing in a marriage of political convenience between conservatives...

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More Lawmakers Give Up Earmarks

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A growing number of lawmakers in Congress are voluntarily giving up one of the biggest perks of office _ at the risk of alienating ...

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