Saturday, September 13, 2008

Time to shrink government

For those of you in Indiana who have been following the Kernan Shephard Report campaign to change the size and structure of government, see Stop Governing Like This, you surely are also concerned about the size of the Federal government. Gates of Vienna posted the results from Citizens against Government waste on Senators and their positions on earmarks, earmark reform, and spending.

On this measurement alone, it would be awful hard to support Barack Obama for President, when Senator John McCain stands as one of the key leaders for government reform and elimination of earmarks.

Here’s the roll call, thanks to Citizens Against Government Waste:

Alabama Sessions, J. R 79% 83%
Alabama Shelby R 57% 54%
Alaska Murkowski R 46% 54%
Alaska Stevens R 37% 51%
Arizona Kyl R 94% 93%
Arizona McCain R 100% 88%
Arkansas Lincoln D 6% 19%
Arkansas Pryor D 3% 9%
California Boxer D 3% 12%
California Feinstein D 3% 16%
Colorado Allard R 86% 83%
Colorado Salazar, K. D 3% 16%
Connecticut Dodd D 0% 14%
Connecticut Lieberman I 6% 21%
Delaware Biden D 0% 22%
Delaware Carper D 6% 18%
Florida Martinez R 71% 70%
Florida Nelson, Bill D 9% 18%
Georgia Chambliss R 86% 77%
Georgia Isakson R 79% 81%
Hawaii Akaka D 0% 8%
Hawaii Inouye D 0% 7%

Idaho Craig R 63% 70%
Idaho Crapo R 74% 70%
Illinois Durbin D 3% 8%
Illinois Obama D 10% 18%
Indiana Bayh D 20% 25%
Indiana Lugar R 63% 77%
Iowa Grassley R 71% 75%
Iowa Harkin D 6% 16%
Kansas Brownback R 80% 82%
Kansas Roberts R 57% 67%
Kentucky Bunning R 86% 78%
Kentucky McConnell R 74% 69%
Louisiana Landrieu D 9% 21%
Louisiana Vitter R 74% 66%
Maine Collins R 34% 53%
Maine Snowe R 17% 50%
Maryland Cardin D 3% 3%
Maryland Mikulski D 3% 10%
Massachusetts Kennedy, E. D 3% 16%
Massachusetts Kerry D 6% 23%
Michigan Levin, C. D 0% 21%
Michigan Stabenow D 0% 17%
Minnesota Coleman R 37% 38%
Minnesota Klobuchar D 0% 0%
Mississippi Cochran R 54% 56%
Mississippi Lott R 63% 67%
Missouri Bond R 34% 59%
Missouri McCaskill D 23% 23%
Montana Baucus, M. D 3% 20%
Montana Tester D 9% 9%
Nebraska Hagel R 74% 77%
Nebraska Nelson, Ben D 3% 28%
Nevada Ensign R 97% 92%
Nevada Reid, H. D 0% 18%
New Hampshire Gregg R 77% 80%
New Hampshire Sununu R 89% 89%
New Jersey Lautenberg D 6% 24%
New Jersey Menendez D 3% 9%
New Mexico Bingaman D 3% 21%
New Mexico Domenici R 42% 57%
New York Clinton D 0% 9%
New York Schumer D 3% 11%
North Carolina Burr R 97% 91%
North Carolina Dole R 73% 68%
North Dakota Conrad D 0% 18%
North Dakota Dorgan D 0% 15%
Ohio Brown, S. D 3% 3%
Ohio Voinovich R 38% 65%
Oklahoma Coburn R 91% 94%
Oklahoma Inhofe R 83% 79%
Oregon Smith, G. R 38% 60%
Oregon Wyden D 0% 21%
Pennsylvania Casey D 6% 6%
Pennsylvania Specter R 29% 49%
Rhode Island Reed, J. D 6% 13%
Rhode Island Whitehouse D 6% 6%
South Carolina DeMint R 97% 96%
South Carolina Graham R 87% 84%
South Dakota Johnson, Tim D 0% 12%
South Dakota Thune R 71% 67%
Tennessee Alexander, L. R 57% 72%
Tennessee Corker R 66% 66%
Texas Cornyn R 83% 79%
Texas Hutchison R 63% 67%
Utah Bennett R 60% 64%
Utah Hatch R 62% 66%
Vermont Leahy D 3% 15%
Vermont Sanders I 3% 3%
Virginia Warner R 38% 71%
Virginia Webb D 9% 9%
Washington Cantwell D 6% 19%
Washington Murray D 3% 13%
West Virginia Byrd D 0% 16%
West Virginia Rockefeller D 3% 13%
Wisconsin Feingold D 34% 40%
Wisconsin Kohl D 3% 34%
Wyoming Barrasso R 82% 82%
Wyoming Enzi R 85% 77%
Wyoming Thomas R 78% 78%

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