Why Isn't Senator Coburn Going After This Wasteful Spending?
Noticeably absent from Coburn or McCain's list of suggested cuts is the failed abstinence-only-until-marriage funding that remains in the bill.
Noticeably absent from Coburn or McCain's list of suggested cuts is the failed abstinence-only-until-marriage funding that remains in the bill.
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
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.
Michael Seitzman | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
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?
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media
Back when the media was allowed to question him, a certain sharp-eyed journalist caught McCain on not always being so maverickly anti-earmark.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
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...
The Huffington Post via FactCheck.Org | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
FactCheck.Org reports that John McCain's "Outrageous" ad: Republican presidential candidate John McCain cites three absurd-sounding examples of pork-...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
John McCain appeared on today's CNN American Morning, ostensibly to talk economic policy with John Roberts. Over the course of the discussion, howeve...
Washington Post | Michael Dobbs | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics
John McCain boasts that he can save $100 billion a year "immediately" by eliminating the so-called earmarks that legislators attach to spending bills ...
The Hill | Manu Raju and Kevin Bogardus | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
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...
Politico | David Rogers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
After months of partisan sniping, the great earmarks debate in Congress may be collapsing in a marriage of political convenience between conservatives...
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A growing number of lawmakers in Congress are voluntarily giving up one of the biggest perks of office _ at the risk of alienating ...
William A. Smith | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics