John McCain
Rally
Brookfield, WI 02/19/08
TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: "So, so I'm very proud to stand before you and tell you that in 24 years in the Congress I have never asked for nor received an earmark or pork-barrel project for my state. [applause] There's a lot of talk about change in Washington and I'd be glad to talk more about that with you and the changes that I've already been able to work on and that I can have much more effect as President of the United States than I can in the United States Senate. But there's one change that, uh, Senator Clinton and Senator Obama didn't quite get. And that is that Senator Clinton, in the last year, got 340 million dollars worth of earmark projects for the state of New York. Senator Obama got some 92 million dollars worth of pork for the state of Illinois. And Senator Obama refuses to reveal what his earmark projects were for the two years before that. I don't think that's transparency in government my friends. And I think you ought to know where the pork-barrel money went and where the earmarks went. . . I will veto every single pork barrel earmark bill that comes across my desk."
LABEL: JM WI 2-19 (GR#76) GACHI - Clip B
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