Here is a link to senator Obama earmarks for 2005-2006. http://answercenter.barackobama.com/cgi-bin/barackobama.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=172&p_created=1205426026&p_sid=TNlxoC-i&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MSwxJnBfcHJvZHM9JnBfY2F0cz
Earmarks by the way are what senators tag onto to bills in an effort to get money to fund certain projects in their states. Many politicians have earmarks for irrelevant and unnecessary projects and soearmarks tend to have negative stigma to them.
Reading through this it is obvious senator Obama understand the importance and usefulness of earmarks. He has put enormous efforts and a lot of thoughts into his earmarks.
A substantive amount of his requests were for scientific research to benefit more than just the state of Illinois, though the research the earmarks fund start in the state of Illinois e.g to University of Illinois for future foods initiative to study funtional compounds and reduced incidence of chronic diseases in human, the SOFIA project which is an observatory for infrared astronomy for earth studies which they say will eventually be operated at the NASA Ames research center in CA. A
Also a lot of his earmarks are for community initiatives in Illinois such as the youth initiatives, missing child programs, law enforcement in-car video cameras etc.
Plus more for enery and water, defense, homeland security, labor/health/education. I could go on and on but you can read it yourselves at the link above.
Senator Obama has certainly been working for the people more than certain senators have. Some of these senators get earmarks to rename buildings and bridges, you know, not so substantive projects. I am defintely proud to be a supporter of senator Obama for president. He may not be perfect (who is?!) but he is damn good for this country. My choice is rock solid! Obama 2008!!
FIRED UP! READY 2 GO!!
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