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McCain Requests No Earmarks; Obama, Hunter, Tancredo, and Paul Release Their Lists

July 6, 2007 | Permalink

  • Richard Wolf writes of the few memebers of Congress releasing their earmark requests:

    As of Tuesday, 55 House members and two senators —Barack Obama of Illinois, a Democratic candidate for president, and Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona — had released their requests as part of a growing trend, according to Citizens Against Government Waste. Eighty House members and 11 senators have told Schatz’s watchdog group that they will not do so.

    In addition to Obama, Republican Reps. Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo, all heavy underdogs in the presidential race, have put out their request lists. Republican Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, Democratic Sens. Joseph Biden of Delaware and Chris Dodd of Connecticut, and Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio have not followed suit.

    Here are Obama’s funding requests; here are Paul’s funding requests; here are Hunter’s funding requests; I’m currently searching for a list of Tancredo’s, which do not seem to be on his website.

  • Also, Paul is coming under heavy fire from some corners for his earmark requests, which contrasts with his rhetoric as a libertarian leaning conservative. In fairness, he does vote ‘no’ on these bills (as his supporters note in the comments here) - but does make requests as they are going to pass. Hypocritical or realistic? I’ll leave it for you to decide.

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    2 Responses to “McCain Requests No Earmarks; Obama, Hunter, Tancredo, and Paul Release Their Lists”

    1. All American Blogger » Blog Archive » A Field Guide To American Politics: July 6, 2007 on July 6th, 2007 8:21 pm

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    2. Mike on July 7th, 2007 12:01 pm

      Ron Paul does his duty as a representative in passing on requests for earmarks from his constituents to be submitted into bills. When those bills come up, he always votes ‘No’, because federal spending on most earmarks is unconstitutional, and Ron Paul honours the oath he makes to uphold the constitution, unlike all the politicians.

      Go Ron Paul 2008!

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