Pass the Pork!
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find an example of pork barrel spending by Congress. You need to provide a brief description of who (member of Congress) and where (the state), what (the project) , and how much (your tax dollars). I need something current though and not something from 1976. It needs to be original too; you can not post something one of your classmates has previously responded with.
If you can link us to the site great.
Otherwise just copy the website address in your response.
If the info comes from a periodical, then cite it for us.
Here is an example: Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) November 2007 Porker of the Month for airdropping a $3 million earmark for the First Tee golf program into the fiscal 2008 Department of Defense Appropriations Act conference report. First Tee’s mission, according to its website, is “To impact the lives of young people by providing learning facilities and educational programs that promote character development and life-enhancing values through the game of golf.”
Golf lessons and military spending...hmmm? seems like this topic came up in our discussions Friday about "contaminating" a bill with off topic items.
Credit given to the first 35 original entries and is due by 3:03 on Dec. 7th.
Happy hunting for "pork".
Mr. Thompson
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I found this one on the same website, dunno if that's allowed or not -
October 18, 2007 - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) Porker of the Month for October 2007 for an $11 million Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) earmark for his alma mater.
Sen. Shelby’s project was the largest of 401 earmarks worth $191.2 million in the HRSA section of the Senate’s 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (LHHS) Appropriations Act. Sen. Shelby’s $11 million is listed in the bill as going to the “University of Alabama [UA], Tuscaloosa, AL for construction, renovation, and equipment” but a press release on Sen. Shelby’s website specified that a “70,000 square foot interdisciplinary health services building” would be constructed.
UA’s new health building will be funded by virtue of the senator’s position on the LHHS Appropriations Subcommittee as well as his status as an alumnus. Almost half of the HRSA earmarks went to 15 LHHS subcommittee members and 60 percent went to the 29 members of the full committee. The Washington Times reported on October 15 that $42 million - 20 percent - was earmarked for the alma maters of members of Congress. The average project for those schools was three times higher than the amount provided for other earmarks. The neediest healthcare centers in the country cannot be in the states of appropriators and the most deserving schools those of lawmakers.
$80 Billion Pork-Barrel Power Bill
by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor
Jerry Taylor is director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute. Peter Van Doren is editor of Regulation, the Cato Review of Business and Government.
This article appeared on cato.org on November 20, 2003.
So what's in the 1,200-page energy bill that emerged this week from months of backroom negotiations? Hundreds of pages of corporate welfare, symbolic gestures, empty promises, and pork-barrel projects. In the name of mom-and-apple pie goals such as increasing energy supplies, reducing energy prices, and curtailing oil imports, the bill does little but transfer wealth from taxpayers to well-connected energy lobbies.
Here are the highlights. The proposed legislation will cost about $80 billion over 10 years and deficits be damned. Government-funded research and development and other subsidies make up about $60 billion of that total. Turning the corporate tax code into a better approximation of Swiss cheese with a new flood of incredibly prescriptive tax credits for every energy firm with a lobbyist will cost the Treasury $16 billion. Higher prices imposed by a doubling of federal ethanol subsidies will cost motorists about $7 billion.
Republicans are making a great to-do over the tax preferences and subsidies for conservation. Putting on their best wool sweaters and Jimmy Carter masks, they brag that their initiatives will reduce the need to build 130 new 300-megawatt power plants by 2020. Environmentalists, however, are not impressed, primarily because that figure amounts to only about three months' worth of energy consumption over the next 17 years. Nor are economists impressed, because that boast implausibly assumes that consumers will not increase their energy use when the marginal costs of energy consumption decline because of energy-efficient technology.
Copied and pasted with editors-hope it's legal web address: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3314
CAGW Names Rep. Oberstar Porker of the Month
Citizens Against Government Waste today named House Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) Porker of the Month for August, 2007. In the wake of the fund.
The 2005 highway bill contained $2 billion annually for bridge reconstruction. During its markup of the bill, the House Transportation Committee considered increasing that figure to $3 billion a year. The committee not only failed to include the higher level of bridge repair funding, it opened the door for members of Congress to stuff the bill with nearly 6,500 pork-barrel projects worth more than $24 billion, about the same amount now being sought by Rep. Oberstar with his proposed tax increase. “High-priority” transportation projects in the 2005 legislation included $452 million for the infamous “Bridges to Nowhere” in Alaska, $5 million to improve air quality in the Sacramento region of California, $4 million to develop bicycle paths and public park space adjacent to the New River in Calexico, California, and $4 million for streetscape, pedestrian improvements in Clarkson, Georgia.
Chairman Oberstar himself was a participant in that earmark melee. Rather than send funds to repair and restore bridges in his state, he added five projects totaling $14.6 million for Duluth, Minnesota, including $3.2 million for the Willard Munger State Trail extension, the longest paved recreational trail in the nation.
Instead of talking taxes, Chairman Oberstar should demand that Congress give the Secretary of Transportation authority to immediately transfer the billions of dollars in unobligated earmarked funds to bridge repairs.
The August 11 Rochester Post Bulletin quoted Rep. Oberstar as follows: "If you're not prepared to invest another five cents in bridge reconstruction and road reconstruction, then God help you." To which one might reply, “If members of Congress are not prepared to wisely spend the money they already have for bridge construction and road construction, then God help them.”
For seizing an opportunity to turn tragedy into tax increases and an unnecessary new trust fund, and for protecting transportation pork, CAGW names Rep. Jim Oberstar its August 2007 Porker of the Month.
...Go Minnnesota!!!!
Leslie, Paige. "CAGW Names Rep.
Oberstar Porker of the Month."
Porker of the Month 14 Aug 2007
02 Dec 2007
(http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?
page=NewsArticle&id=10940).
Alan Mollahan (D- W.VA)
Washington, D.C. Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) Porker of the Month for April of 2006 for abusing his position on the House Appropriations Committee by securing millions of dollars in earmarks that may have benefited him personally.
Alan Mollohan, with his senior status on the House Appropriations Committee, funneled over $250 million in government funds to 5 different non-profit organizations, all of them located in his district, all of them originally founded by Mollohan himself, and all of them currently run by friends or family.
Highlight: One of the organizations used the money to purchase a new $103 million headquarters, complete with spa, sauna, and 57 full-time staff members.
Rep. Mollohan, at the time, was the ranking Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, and has since stepped down from his post because of accusations of excessive pork barrel spending.
http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9993
Rep. Howard McKeon, R-Calif., who wrested $50,000 for the National Mule and Packers Museum in the western frontier town of Bishop, was equally unapologetic.
"One thing we forget is the people in Bishop pay taxes," he said, adding "they have gotten very little back from the federal government."
http://www.startribune.com/587/story/1421821.html
Ben H
CAGW Names Rep. Clyburn Porker of the Month
Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) November 2007 Porker of the Month for airdropping a $3 million earmark for the First Tee golf program into the fiscal 2008 Department of Defense Appropriations Act conference report. First Tee’s mission, according to its website, is “To impact the lives of young people by providing learning facilities and educational programs that promote character development and life-enhancing values through the game of golf.”
Even a pork-happy Congress that inserted 2,074 pork projects worth $6.6 billion into this year’s defense bill initially rejected Rep. Clyburn’s earmark. According to a November 10 McClatchy Newspapers report, “Clyburn said Friday he had to add the money to the defense spending bill in the conference committee because ‘it didn't make the cut’ earlier.”
Aside from its inappropriate placement in the defense bill, the First Tee funds were not competitively awarded and are certainly not need-based. The program has enough green to run ads during nationally-televised professional golf events, has corporate sponsorships from Fortune 500 companies, and boasts some of the sport’s heaviest hitting organizations as “Founding Partners,” Augusta National Golf Club, the Ladies Professional Golf Association, the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) of America, the PGA Tour, and the United States Golf Association.
On November 8, 2007, Rep. Clyburn defended his wedge of pork on the House floor, “[T]his request was made by me, and my name is attached to it because I’m very, very proud of it.” The earmark is not the only project with which his name is associated. In August 2007, the City of Columbia Golf Center was renamed the James E. Clyburn Golf Center and a statue of him was erected outside the facility.
First Tee has received $7.5 million in earmarks since 2003. First Tee won CAGW’s “The Taxpayers Get Teed Off” Oinker Award in 2004 for receiving $3 million in two separate appropriations bills. One earmark was for $1 million from the Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Education and its Character Education Program, added in conference. These funds are intended solely for state and local education agencies, and they are disbursed through a competitive grant program. In addition, the grants are supposed to be limited to a maximum of $500,000. Based on these criteria, First Tee was not eligible for any of this funding.
The other $2 million for First Tee came from the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice Programs’ Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). The COPS program began under President Clinton with the goal of adding 100,000 more police to the streets. It is safe to say that First Tee would not put one cop on the street.
For chipping millions of taxpayer dollars from the Defense Appropriations budget in order to “putts” around with a pet golf project, CAGW names Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) its November 2007 Porker of the Month.
Citizens Against Government Waste is the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers, government officials, and political candidates who have shown a blatant disregard for the interests of taxpayers.
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=news_porkerofthemonth
From: November 2007
Megan
In the year 2000, Sen. Trent Lott, a republican from Mississippi, received $375,000,000 for an unrequested and unneeded amphibious assault ship in Mississippi.
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=policy_Pork_Barrel_Spending
There is NO way Mississippi needs that! That money could help education throughout the country and not even that just that state.
EarthPork
Senator Chuck Grassley received a $50 million federal grant for the construction of an indoor rainforest and education center in his home state of Iowa. The “EarthPark” example has been cited by John McCain in his presidential campaign as an example of ridiculous pork barrel spending. Chuch Grassley has a reputation for obtaining money for his pet projects. Does Iowa really need an indoor rainforest?
http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=3216D2B8-E038-3881-76E215E6CD47FBE1
For more detailed information on the EarthPark check out
http://www.nicholasjohnson.org/politics/IaChild/#its%20backers%20have%20yet%20to%20settle%20upon%20a
March 2007 Washington, D.C. -- Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.) Porker of the Month for adding $25 million for spinach growers to the fiscal 2007 emergency supplemental bill. The House of Representatives will soon vote on the U.S. Readiness, Veterans’ Health and Iraq Accountability Act of 2007, which costs $21 billion more than the President’s request mostly because of domestic spending unrelated to military operations.
Last year’s E. coli outbreak caused the Food and Drug Administration to issue a warning against eating fresh spinach, leading to losses for growers. Rep. Farr’s district is home to many spinach farms and has been referred to as “The Salad Bowl of the World.” The source of the outbreak was eventually traced to a farm in his district.
According to The Salinas Californian (3/16/07), Rep. Farr said, “The funds I fought for in today’s emergency supplemental are for those growers and first-handlers that acted with due diligence, did the right thing and pulled their product. Supporting our spinach producers is not just important for our local economy, it’s important for our national health.” Rep. Farr sits on the House Appropriations Committee and on three of its subcommittees, including Agriculture.
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) offered an amendment to remove the spinach provision from the bill, but was defeated. He noted, “A $25 million bailout for spinach owners demeans the bill. It holds Congress up to ridicule.”
Rep. Farr countered, “It’s easy to make fun of spinach, but if we had eaten more of it, we would be a stronger society.” While spinach does provide health benefits, compensation to its growers does not contribute to a stronger military, which was supposed to have been the focus of the bill.
Spinach growers deserve no special reward for pulling a deadly product from store shelves. The growers can plan for and survive temporary slumps just like any other business. Non-subsidized businesses must constantly adjust to unforeseeable events to stay profitable in the free market. Spinach growers are using lobbyists and Rep. Farr to obtain special privileges at taxpayers’ expense.
-Amanda Schuelka
http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=10582
Hey APLGers,
A couple of things:
1) Keep your comments unique. No doubling up on "pork".
2) Keep these short. I need the member of Congress responsible, amount of spending, state the money is allocated for and a brief description of the project. DON'T COPY AND PASTE THE WHOLE ARTICLE!!!
3) Make sure your example meets the definition of pork and isn't just a spending bill.
Mr. Thompson
heres a new one since i took Mr.T's by accident!
CAGW Names Sen. Feinstein Porker of the Month
Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) Porker of the Month for September, 2007 for a provision inserted into the 2008 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Act that would obstruct the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) attempt to improve the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center.
In 2002, the VA began a review of all its properties as part of the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES), to determine where money could be saved and facilities improved. Eighteen properties were identified in 2004 for additional analysis, including the West LA Center.
Sen. Feinstein would prohibit enhanced use leases on the West LA property as well as outlaw any sale of the land for private use. The VA is not planning on selling any of the land; however, it would like to enter into more enhanced use leases to stop wasting money on maintaining vacant and underused buildings. The VA is already engaged in contracts with UCLA, a Hollywood production company, a rental car company, and a theater. These agreements bring revenue to the VA through rent, save the VA money on maintaining excess buildings, and often provide discounts and services to veterans. Current leases bring in about $5 million a year.
The CARES report identified 21 abandoned or underutilized buildings, out of 91 on the campus, that the VA says it has no use for, which could be turned into valuable resources. The West LA campus is about to undergo a reorganization and modernization of its medical facilities and could use an influx of cash to pay for it. The CARES Stage Two Report on the property that came out August 24 notes that:
[I]t is likely that reuse proceeds will provide a substantial offset to the significant capital investments required to render facilities modern, safe, and secure. It is prudent to maximize the potential value of vacant buildings and underutilized land to increase resources available to meet future veterans healthcare needs. Compatible development options that reduce underutilized portions of the campus have the potential to generate resources to provide additional services and/or pay for improvements to VA owned facilities.
Sen. Feinstein wants to take away these additional sources of revenue and force taxpayers to continue to pay for the continued maintenance and liability of the excess property. If Sen. Feinstein’s language is allowed to be passed into law, the VA’s hands will be tied, the buildings will continue to languish, and funding for medical center improvements will have to be redirected from somewhere else.
Critics have speculated that Sen. Feinstein is going to bat for wealthy constituents concerned that development on the land would ruin the views from their homes and hurt property values. The VA center is surrounded by the ritzy towns of Beverly Hills, Brentwood, and Bel-Air, home to many celebrities and country clubs.
Whatever the motivation, the outcome of Sen. Feinstein’s plan would be harmful to veterans. For attempting to stymie the VA’s ability to cut waste and increase funding for improved veterans care at a time when our service men and women need it the most, CAGW names Sen. Dianne Feinstein its September 2007 Porker of the Month.
Citizens Against Government Waste is the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers, government officials, and political candidates who have shown a blatant disregard for the interests of taxpayers.
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=news_porkerofthemonth_Sept07
Megan M
I found this at http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2005
Under the Defense budget.
"$1,500,000 added by the House for the Allen Telescope Array at the University of California, Berkley. This telescope is part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI). SETI’s website boasts about the telescope’s potential to help uncover extraterrestrial life and its strength as a radio telescope. The website fails to mention any defense-related mission, unless the telescope will alert us to an alien attack. It is no wonder that we have to look for intelligent life elsewhere after seeing how Congress spends our money."
Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) won $23,000,000 from the Fiscal 2008 Department of Defense Appropriations Act for the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) located in Pennsylvania.
Details: "Since 1992, more than $509 million has been used to fund NDIC, which is administered by the Department of Justice (DOJ.). Ironically, DOJ does not want the NDIC and has asked Congress to shut the agency down because the department believes the operations are duplicative."
DODAA Pork for 2008
NDIC Spending Details
You'd think they could afford a better website
This was found at http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2006Oinkers
Representative Anne Northup (R-Ky.) for her help in securing $150,000 for the Actors Theater in Louisville, Kentucky
Lauren F
ok well im thinking this is one if not oops...
— $62.4 million for commerce projects in Alaska, home of Senate Appropriations Committee ranking member Republican Ted Stevens, including $750,000 to prevent Atlantic salmon from escaping state streams and $4 million for sea lion recovery projects.
it seemed like pointless spending but maybe not sorry?!?
oh yeah sorry i found that at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,49837,00.html
the article was titled
Congress Sets Record for Pork Spending
This one comes from the house and was actually passed. It was for $500,000 for the Anaheim Resort Transit which is used to take visitors to Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, and the Anaheim Convention Center. It was introduced by Rep. Loretta Sanchez a Democrat from California
Heres the link to the web page it has all the pork spending from 2007 back to 1991
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2007
Dale Bumpers (D-AR)
$4.75 million
Stuttgart, Arkansas
This was slipped into the 1995 Appropriations Bill.
The money was used to help build and improve the Rice Germplasm Center in Stuttgart, Arkansas. It specializes in the Genomic characterization of rice Germplasm. The center works toward improvement of rice for yield, grain quality, and pest resistance.
Pamela Baker
oh yeah...
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook1995
for the germplasm center :)
In the Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations bill:
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.)'s district was granted $450,000 for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. The Hall of Fame; a commision to examine steroid use among professional baseball players.
It's website states "baseball has connections to a variety of academic disciplines, including mathematics, history, geography, technology, sociology, cultural diversity, character education, economics, women's history"
I found that at http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2005
katie b
— $78.5 million in labor and health and human services projects in Iowa, home of Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee chairman Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, including $100,000 to encourage children to hold fairs displaying their inventions and $3 million for the Iowa Communications Network.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,49837,00.html
This site had some general examples too...but doesn't say what congressman so look just for fun.
http://www.ucanation.org/pork%20report.htm
Hawaii Senator, Daniel K. Inouye announced the Congress approved $13.9 million for important Hawaii agriculture initiatives... some of these "important" initiatives include:
Brown Tree Snake Eradication and Control, $400,000
Pineapple Research, $293,000
Papaya Research, $293,000
Non-toxic Fruit Fly Control, $278,200
Subterranean Termite Research, $141,500
http://inouye.senate.gov/~inouye/99pr/10/1999A19342.html
Oh, and just a little PS, Inouye is a Defense leader, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee...and this funding was proposed during a gigantic $416billion appropriations bill for the Department of Defense :)
-Karli
http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11046
-> For my comment... the first one up there
That went off the screen...
http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?
page=NewsArticle&id=11046
In April 2006, Republican Senators Trent Lott and Thad Cochran of Mississippi put $700 million in an emergency war spending bill to relocate a Gulf Coast rail line that had just been rebuilt
My link..
Representative Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin obtained $1.76 Million for the "Portage Bike Path Development"
Dec 3, 2007.
Within an appropriations bill on IRS refunds, Sen. Arlen Specter(R) from Pennsylvania will recieve $885,000 for abstinence education. This is only one of example of pork barrel spending in the bill, and due to the numerous examples, the bill is struggling.
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20071203/EDITS/71203021
Vail Daily
Dec 3, 2007
Heather Lemon
For your pleasure, Mr. Thompson
House Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) was named Porker of the Month for August, 2007. Oberstar seeks about 24 million for bridge repair, despite the 2005 highway act, which contained 2 billion dollars for bridge repair. Oberstar was one of many who packed this bill with frivolous spending, adding five projects totaling $14.6 million for Duluth, Minnesota, including $3.2 million for the Willard Munger State Trail extension, the longest paved recreational trail in the nation.
Tricia
Democratic Senator Harry Reid of Nevada opted $500,000 of the Labor, Health, and Human Services and Education Appropriation Act to go towards the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas.
http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11118&news_iv_ctrl=1389
Where: Louisiana
Who: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) and Rep. David Vitter (R)
For spending $11,450,000.000 on a waterway that carries less than 0.1% of U.S. commercial water traffic.
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2005
$700,000 for the Admiral Theater in Bremerton, Washington, the district of House member Norm Dicks (D-Wash)
In 2002, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama managed to allocate 1,5 million to restore a 56 ft. stature of the Roman god Vulcan in Birmingham , Ala.
http://www.ucanation.org/pork%20report.htm
Representative Terry Everett (R-Alabama) spent $200,000 of taxpayers money on a peanut festival in Alabama.
From "The Real Price of Pork Barrel Spending" by John Stossel, Glenn Ruppel, and Ann Varney. ABC News. 9 September 2005
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=1112408&page=1
Thad Cochran (R-Miss)
delta rural revitalization in the state of Mississippi.
$246,000 was added to the original bill, and since 1989 $2.7 million dollars has been put towards this research.
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2005
Senator Ted Stevens (R) of Alaska. $150,000 for Alaskan Whaling Commission.
I'm pretty sure whaling is illegal except for Inuits.
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2006#energy
$200,000 by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for (D-Nev.) for the Post Office Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, to complete transformation of the old Post Office in downtown Las Vegas into a museum on local history
$200,000 by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for (D-Nev.) for the Post Office Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, to complete transformation of the old Post Office in downtown Las Vegas into a museum on local history;
$5,000,000 for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Paralympic Military Program, added by Representatives Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) and Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.)
Utah
Mormon Cricket Control
1 Million
Senator Bob Bennett R-Utah
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,565037467,00.html
Oops! This one's from 2003... in any case crickets?
Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA)
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana).
Louisiana and Alaska
$45 billion
http://www.landrights.org/OCS/CushmanSchlechtLetter_3.22.00.htm
Julian A
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
$300,000 for commercialization of native Alaskan plant materials in 2006
http://www.ucanation.org/pork%20report.htm
Who: Ted Stevens
Where: Alaska
What: $500,000 to remodel a ski lodge and $75,000 to install a transit system in the town of the North Pole
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