I hadn’t realised until Sallie James at Cato pointed me in the right direction that neither John McCain, nor Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton voted on the (awful) 2007 Farm Bill. Well, I guess one can see why. Still, it would be nice to hear their answers to the questions:
1.Why didn’t you vote on the Farm Bill?
and
2. If you had would cast a vote, would you have voted Yes or No?
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