Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te 17 o Poutu-te-rangi 2009, i kii te Perehitini Obama kua tohua e ia a Rooney hei kaikauwhau a te US ki Ireland, e kii ana i te tautoko a te rangatira mo nga kaupapa atawhai a Irish-American. I te tau 2008, i hoatu e Rooney he $30,000 ki tētahi komiti o te Pāti Manapori i āwhina
Ko te kaupapa a Obama, e ai ki a CQ MoneyLine, he rōpū kore-rōpū e whai ana i ngā takoha tōrangapū. E ai ki a David Lewis, he kairangahau tōrangapū o te Whare Wānanga o Vanderbilt, he kaituhi hoki o "The Politics of Presidential Appointments", "ko te tuku i ngā tūranga rangatira ki ngā kaitautoko tōrangapū, he huarahi iti rawa te mōrearea mō ngā perehitini ki te utu i ngā nama pakanga".