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| Subject: TCS: Clinton tops in earmarks Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:05 am | |
| Boston Globe
“Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure more than $340 million worth of special projects for her home state of New York in last year’s spending bills, according to a new study by a government watchdog group. The figure places her among the top 10 Senate recipients of what are commonly known as earmarks, said the group, Taxpayers for Common Sense. Working in nearly every case with New York colleagues, Clinton supported almost four times as much spending on earmarked projects as her rival for the Democratic nomination, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, whose $91 million total placed him in the bottom quarter of senators who seek earmarks, the study showed.” |
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