Obama's Earmarks: $1 Million for Wife's Hospital

Friday, March 14, 2008 8:47 AM

By: Jim Meyers Article Font Size



Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has released a list of $740 million in earmark requests he made in the past three years, and it includes $1 million for the hospital where his wife Michelle is a vice president.


The request for $1 million for the University of Chicago Medical Center was to help pay for construction of a new pavilion.


“I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that Michelle Obama was not part of our lobbying over the request, not in any way,â€