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USAToday:

Michelle Obama's hospital: On senator's wish-list

By Mike Dorning | Washington Bureau
3:15 PM CDT, March 14, 2008

...

"Obama released on Thursday a list of all his requests for earmarked federal
spending in 2005 and 2006. He already had released a list of spending requests
made in 2007.

In among them was a request for $1 million in federal funding in 2006 for a new
pavilion at the University of Chicago Hospitals, where his wife, Michelle Obama,
was a vice president at the time."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-earmarks-obama,1,7838316.story


USAToday:
Hospital officials say Obama's wife deserved big raise

Obama_iii Officials at the University of Chicago Hospitals say a promotion and large
pay increase given to Sen. Barack Obama's wife shortly after the Democrat was elected
to Congress were well-deserved boosts for an executive who is "worth her weight in gold."
The Chicago Tribune has the story.

"She's terrific," added Michael Riordan, who was president of the hospital in March 2005,
when Michelle Obama was promoted to vice president for external affairs and had her annual
salary increased from $121,910 to $316,962.

Hospitals spokesman John Easton told the Tribune that Michelle Obama's salary is in line
with those of the 16 other vice presidents at the not-for-profit medical center.

Riordan told the Tribune that the promotion and salary increase had nothing to do with
Obama's husband becoming a U.S. senator. "She was hired before Barack was Barack," Riordan said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-earmarks-obama,1,7838316.story