McCain voted 19 times against a minimum-wage increase.
Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details
"We spent $3-million of your money to study the DNA of bears."
John McCain on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 in Orange County, Calif. >>Details
Obama wants to increase the size of government by 23 percent.
John McCain on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 in a radio ad called "Millions" >>Details
"McCain opposed a requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles. And he said all buy-American provisions were quote 'disgraceful.' "
Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 in a radio ad >>Details
Spending increases, not tax cuts, are the major cause of the federal budget deficit.
John McCain on Monday, July 28th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's Larry King Live >>Details
"These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for."
Barack Obama on Monday, June 16th, 2008 in Flint, Mich. >>Details
John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."
Barack Obama on Saturday, June 21st, 2008 in remarks to U.S. Conference of Mayors >>Details
We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia "to finance this war" in Iraq.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Mo. >>Details
"George Bush, and a Republican Congress, have presided over a 55 percent increase in the size of domestic government spending in the last seven years."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 in a comment by McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" >>Details
"McCain lobbied for (a) $10-million pork project honoring conservative justice."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 in a campaign e-mail to reporters >>Details
Eliminating earmarks "would make barely a drop in the bucket with regard to the national debt, the deficit."
Bob Barr on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in a news conference announcing his Libertarian candidacy in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"My friend, we have increased the size of government by some 40 percent just in the last few years."
John McCain on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in a television interview. >>Details
Democrats’ budget resolution would raise America’s tax bill by "$500-billion."
John McCain on Monday, April 7th, 2008 in a poll on McCain's Web site >>Details
"Obama's liberal fiscal agenda: Over $874-billion in new spending."
Republican National Committee on Friday, February 29th, 2008 in a graphic on the RNC website. >>Details
"In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects."
John McCain on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 in a campaign event in Fairfield, Conn. >>Details
"Let's not blame President Bush for all of this. We've got a Congress who sat around on their hands and done nothing but spend a lot of money ... leaving us $9-trillion in debt that we're passing on to our grandchildren."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in a debate in Simi Valley, Calif. >>Details
"Congress just passed another huge, pork-filled spending bill. The Democrats allowed less than a day to read all 3,400 pages and stuffed it with nearly 10,000 earmarks costing about $10-billion dollars."
John McCain on Saturday, January 12th, 2008 in a speech to the Americans for Prosperity Michigan summit in Livonia, Mich. >>Details
"I have never asked for nor received a single earmark or pork barrel project for my state."
John McCain on Sunday, January 6th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."
John McCain on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"Hillary’s baby bond proposal would give $5,000 to each of the 4-million babies born in the U.S. each year, totaling $20-billion per year, multiplied by four years = $80-billion."
Republican National Committee on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in a Web site. >>Details
"If Sen. Hillary Clinton could enact all of her campaign proposals, taxpayers would be faced with financing more than $777.6-billion in new spending over one White House term."
Republican National Committee on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in Web "Spend-O-Meter" >>Details
"The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus."
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, July 1st, 2007 in “Innovators in Action” magazine >>Details
“Mayor Giuliani’s lawsuit killed the line-item veto.”
Mitt Romney on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 in >>Details
"John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in an interview on CNBC. >>Details
"Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock Concert Museum."
John McCain on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
"Earmarked dollars have doubled just since 2000, and more than tripled in the last 10 years."
John McCain on Monday, October 8th, 2007 in a campaign Web site. >>Details
"We spent $223-million on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it."
John McCain on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 in a speech in Nashua, N.H. >>Details
"We spent approximately $20-billion of that money on pork barrel, earmark projects. Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges across the country."
John McCain on Saturday, August 4th, 2007 in a comment to a reporter. >>Details
"Social Security ... is solid through about 2040 without any changes whatsoever."
Dennis Kucinich on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in Hanover, N.H. >>Details
"The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct."
John McCain on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 in Oklahoma City. >>Details
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