Pork Assignment

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 contemporary though and not something from 1976 (that means 2009 if you aren't sure). 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.

Citizens Against Government Waste CAGW) has released the 2009 Congressional Pig Book, the latest installment in the group’s 19-year exposé of pork-barrel spending. While the number of specific projects declined by 12.5 percent, from 11,610 in fiscal year 2008 to 10,160 in fiscal year 2009, the total tax dollars spent to fund them increased by 14 percent, from $17.2 billion to $19.6 billion. You need to find ONE.

Here is an example: I am a huge baseball fan but Sen. Levin from Michigan crossed my line when he tucked $3.8 million in an appropriations bill to "preserve and redevelop old Tiger Stadium in Detroit. That would be like asking America to pay for a facelift on the Metrodome after the Twins leave to go to their new ballpark next year. www.cagw.org/

This is an assignment not extra credit. Credit given to the first 29 original entries and is due by the start of class on Nov. 5th.
Happy hunting for "pork".
Mr. Thompson