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November 21, 2008 3:38:29 PM CST



Clinton, Obama Both Inflate Senate Records

Posted Mar 24, 08 1:21 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Barack Obama didn’t take part in meetings on immigration legislation in 2006, recalls Arlen Specter, one of the handful of senators who did, but Specter just shrugs when the Illinois Democrat says he did. “It’s not an unusual matter for senators to take a little extra credit,” Specter says—and both Obama and Hillary Clinton have taken liberal helpings so far, the Washington Post reports.

Senators often lack the clear executive accomplishments of governors; Clinton’s solution has been to tout her years as first lady, but one of her most frequently cited accomplishments—the State Children’s Health Insurance Program—didn’t have much to do with her. “If she was involved, I didn’t know about it,” said top GOP negotiator Orrin Hatch.

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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., takes a bite of pizza at American Dream Pizza in Corvallis, Ore., Friday, March 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left and Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at Cleveland State University, in this Feb. 26, file photo.   (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks at a town hall meeting in Medford, Ore., Saturday, March 22, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., listens during testimony on the future course of the war in Iraq on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Sept. 11, 2007, file photo.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., gives a double thumbs-up as she greets supporters during a campaign rally in Evansville, Ind., Thursday, March 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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