John McCain
Town Hall
Stockton, CA 05/22/08
TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: Now, an example of [pork barrel spending] is the farm bill. Now the farm bill, we need to help some farmers in need. This farm bill is a $300 billion, loaded down with pork barrel, earmark projects at a time when Americans are hurting economically, they're trying to keep their job, they're trying to keep their home and we're gonna give $93 million to race horse, to thoroughbed, uh, thoroughbred racehorse's owners [booing] and we're gonna give billions of dollars to farmers that make over $200,000 a year and we're going to give billions of dollars for farmers not to grow anything. My friends, this bill deserves your condemnation, the president's vetoing it. To its everlasting shame, the congress of the United States, Republican and Democrat will override the veto. I will veto a farm bill and I will make 'em famous and I can tell you that we're not going to have business as usual in Washington when I'm president of the United States. [cheering] Let me also tell you—And so, what did Sen. Obama do? The person who wants change? He's going to—he's supporting that farm bill. He's supporting those pork barrel projects. My friends, I think the only change he's trying to make is to business as usual in Washington. And my friends I have been and will be an agent for change.
LABEL: JM CA 5-22 (EW#9) ABSU -- Clip D
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