Pork Assignment
Your task: Find an example of Pork spending in the 2010 or 2011 budget. Must meet the criteria for pork so be careful. Your example must be unique so don't wait to be the 41st person to blog as there are only 42 examples of pork in the budgets. (just kidding, my sources tell me there were 9,129 earmarks worth $16.5 billion in the 2010budget alone)
When you reply I need:
the link where you got your info
the name of the Senator or Rep responsible for the pork
the state or district where person is from
a short description of what the money is to be used for
how much money are we talking about
Due by the time we take our test on Congress!!!!
Example:$500,000 by Delegate Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) for a Brown Tree Snake program. Apparently brown snakes are "running" roughshod on the island of Guam and our tax dollars are needed to help rid the island of these reptiles.
Mr. Thompson
posted by erdecker @ 11:02 AM
42 comments
42 Comments:
http://www.investinganswers.com/a/10-most-absurd-pork-barrel-spending-items-2010-1583
Representative Responsible: Robert Aderholt
Senator Responsible: Richard Shelby
Robert Aderholt is a republican from the 4th congressional district in Alabama. Richard Shelby is a republican senator.
Robert Aderholt and Richard Shelby were able to obtain $250,000 for a wireless network for the city of Hartselle, Alabama.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe and Democrat Reps. Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree (all from Maine) garnered $200,000 dollars for lobster research at the Maine Department of Marine Resources.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/oinkers.html
Representative Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas) and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) were given $693,000 for beef improvement research.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Senator: Kit Bond (R)
Representative: William Lacy Clay (D)
*both are from Missouri
These two members of Congress gained $225,000 for the restoration and installation of exhibits at the St. Louis Art Museum Foundation (in Missouri). Surprisingly, as of December 31, 2007, the museum had a fund balance of $148,434,857.
http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2010-08/the-10-most-absurd-pork-barrel-spending-items-of-2010.aspx?storyid=32756
Reprensentative: Tom Harkin of Iowa
Harkin asked for $10 million for a program benefiting the Iowa public schools. He was granted $7.2 million for his self-titled Harkin Grant Program.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/oinkers.html
Senator Arlen Specter (D) Pennsylvania
Representative Paul Kanjorski (D) Pennsylvania
$200,000 for design and construction of a small business incubator and multipurpose center in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
(Like the one The Office takes place in)
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/pork-database.html
Senator: Grassley; Harkin
Representative Responsible:Latham
Bio-Safety Institute $259,000 for Genetically Modified Agriculture Products (Animal Plant Health Inspection Service: Salaries and Expenses)
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Rep Ander Crenshaw of Florida
$26,360,000 for a fitness facility at Mayport Naval Station. There is a Jacksonville Snap Fitness Center 11 miles from Mayport Naval Station (membership is only $44.95 a month), but apparently another one is needed for the 60,000 plus active-duty personnel, family members, retirees, and civilian employees in Mayport.
http://www.cagw.org/assets/pig-book-files/2010/2010-pig-book-summary.pdf
Page 16, second entry.
Rep Lucille Roybal-Allard
California Democrat, 34th District
$200,000 used for youth soccer gang prevention. Interestingly, in this representative's case, the money is for the Washington, D.C. based U.S. Soccer Foundation rather than anything in her home state of California.
http://www.investinganswers.com/a/10-most-absurd-pork-barrel-spending-items-2010-1583
Late senator Robert C. Byrd from West Virginia proposed $7 million for the Insitute of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, which is more formally known as the Robert C. Byrd Institute. So, he basically gave money to himself.
http://www.cagw.org/assets/pig-book-files/2010/2010-pig-book-summary.pdf
Senator: Judd Gregg of New Hampshire
Party: Republican
Judd Gregg used $1,000,000 in repairs, restoration, and modernization of a theatre and
construction of an additional space at the Portsmouth Music Hall.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Sen Kay Hagan (North Carolina)
Rep Bob Etherige (North Carolina)
349,000 for Swine and other Waste Management.
(I thought it was a good example of pork...because swine...yeah.)
Represenitive: Howard Berman (D-California)
$200,000 was given to the Providence Holy Cross Foundation tattoo removal violence pervention program in Mission Hills.
Basically the goverment gave away $200,000 so people in California could get their tattoos removed if they wanted.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worst-pork-of-2010-2010-4#200000-for-a-tattoo-removal-program-in-california-4
In the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Act
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Texas)
$500,000 by Senate CJS Appropriations Subcommittee member Kacomy Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) for the Manned Space Flight Education Foundation in Houston to create “a virtual space community for students.”
http://membership.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2006
Representatives Ralph Regula and Marcy Kaptur
$179,000 spent on "hydroponic tomato production research"
Anthony Schliesman
http://www.cagw.org/newsroom/releases/2010/energy.html
Rep. Joseph Crowley, a Democrat serving the 7th district in New York.
$300,000
To note barriers where wind turbines may or may not be placed due to "barriers", aka skyscrapers. In New York.
Fail.
Taylor Thompson
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/ (2010 Pig Book Summary)
Representative: Adam Putnam (R-Fla)
Putnam asked for $100,000 to go towards the Florida Department of Citrus in Lakeland for improved citrus harvesting.
Interestingly enough, he is retiring from Congress and running for Florida Agriculture Commissioner.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/taxes/less-taxpayer-money-goes-to-pork-in-2010/19440225/
Representative: Senator Arlen Specter, and Representative Paul Kanjorski
State: Pennsylvania
Senator A. Specter, and Representative Paul Kanjorski were granted $200,000 to build a small business incubator and multipurpose room in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Senator Barbara Mukulski is a democrat from Maryland.
Mukulski wants $3,000,000 for the Nation Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/oinkers.html
Republican senators from Kansas Sam Brownback, and Pat Roberts gave $3,500,000 for the National Institute for Aviation Research.
(http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/pork-database.html)
Representative Mike Rogers of Alabama got $819,000 to go towards the genome mapping of catfish.
http://my.opera.com/cwbywz/blog/2009/05/07/pork-barrel-spending-bussiness-as-usual
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens passed a $150,000 earmark in the FY 2008 agriculture appropriation legislation in order to improve rodent control on the Aleutian Islands to help the seabirds whose nesting habitats have been disrupted.
http://www.mathimortician.com/2010/04/25-scandalous-examples-of-government.html
I forgot to put my website
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/pork-database.html
Klobuchar, our MN senator, requested $200,000 for us to work out the genome of soybeans. So it's less pork and more tofu! Haha! Actually I was looking for hilarious Al Franken ones but they were all about children's hospitals and other not-hilarious stuff, so this will have to do.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/#XI_State_and_Foreign_Operations
Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.)
career exploration and training for at-risk youths for jobs in filmmaking at the Duke Media Foundation in Hollywood.
$100,000
$2,908,000 for shrimp aquaculture research in seven states
requested by two senators and five representatives.
http://www.cagw.org/assets/pig-book-files/2010/2010-pig-book-summary.pdf
Nita Lowey of New York, the house appropriator, had 125,000 dollars be spent to train nurses,
encouraging an increase in opportunity- exclusively for Pace University Lienhard School of Nursing. Supposedly, this is necessary considering the exponential growth of nurses. So why would you spend so much money to get even more?
Link: http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
http://membership.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2009
$850,000 by Senate appropriator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for a research initiative at Iowa State University to improve understanding of surface winds and their damaging effects
Former Representative Chris Shays (R-Conn) received 1.9 million dollars for a water taxi service at "Pleasure Beach," a tourist destination.
http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2009/04/23/pork-barrel-projects-rampant-in-congresss-spending-for-2009-fiscal-year.html
This is the link for my last post
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/1993/
Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK)
$25,000,000 for an Arctic region supercomputer at the University of Alaska to study how to trap energy from the aurora borealis.
http://www.investinganswers.com/a/10-most-absurd-pork-barrel-spending-items-2010-1583
By Mike Crapo; Idaho (R) He got 2.5 million for potato research for his district and a parts of Maryland, Maine and Wisconsin. Apparently 1.5 million of the money will go to "competitive potato breeding". I had no idea people bred potatoes competitively (haha). The next pork money Crapo gets will go to petition the Olympic Committee to include a variety of vegetable competitions.
$775,000 for the Institute for Food Science and Engineering (IFSE) requested by Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Rep. John Boozman (R-Ark. 3rd District). One of the research areas is “Pickle Science and Technology”, apparently “dedicated to increasing product value by improving production and quality of pickled vegetables.” So the economic pickle we've gotten ourselves into can be attributed to, well...pickles.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
http://www.askmen.com/top_10/top_10_150/185_top_10_list.html
Iowa Senator Tom Hawkin (Democrat from Iowa's 5th congressional dstrict) got $250,000 in 2003 to fund the National Preschool Anger Management Project. Kids that went through the program learned stress-relieving techniques and ways to stop anger and anxiety.
Unfortunately, my link didn't copy correctly. Here is the correct link: http://www.askmen.com/top_10/top_10_150/185_top_10_list.html.
I don't know what's going on with the blog and my link because it is not putting the whole thing (even though it shows it all before I publish it)! The last part after the 185_top_ is list.html. So, maybe this works...
http://www.askmen.com/top_10/top_10
_150/185_top_10_list.html. If not, I hope you can figure it out from what I said before. Sorry for the confusion!
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worst-pork-of-2010-2010-4#254000-grant-for-the-montana-sheep-institute-7
Porkers?
Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.)
How much meat?
$254,000 in a grant
For?
The Montana Sheep Institute was given a $254,000 grant that was hidden inside an Agriculture Appropriation Bill. The Montana Sheep Institute (MSI) also works with the Montana Wool Growers Association. Their goal is to "explore opportunities to increase the utilization of sheep in weed management programs and improve the profitability and competitiveness of theMontana Sheep Industry."
This is a pretty ba-a-a-a-ad way to spend our money.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/pork-database.html
Representative: Bruce Braley
Senators: Chuck Grassley, Tom Harkin
They are all from Iowa.
Iowa's Congressman spent 2.2 million dollars on a new water-based paint training.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/pork-database.html
Senator: Dianne Feinstein
State: California
Feinstein asked for $2.4 million for a high-tech memory card for her assistant's PDA.
Thank you to the 34 of you who posted examples of "pork". Before you get all up in arms over some of this spending, keep in mind it makes up less than 1% of the entire federal budget. However it can still be a bit hard to stomach when you read about what some of your hard earned tax dollars are being spent on in some constituencies around the country.
By the way, Ben and Elizabeth win the award for the biggest LOL for their great posts on VEGGIES!
Mr. Thompson
http://www.investinganswers.com/a/10-most-absurd-pork-barrel-spending-items-2010-1583
Rep Responsible: Guam delegate Madeleine Bordallo.
Since 1996, $15.1 million have been allotted to controll the brown tree snake population in Guam.
Okay, one more time.
www.investingansers.com/a/10-most-absurd-pork-barrel-spending-items-2010-1583
Rep Responsible: Texas Senator, Kay Bailey Huchinson and Texas Represntitive Ciro Rodiguez
693,000 went to beef improvment research in Missouri and Texas but was actually used to improve fertility.
Thank you Mr. T for letting me do this again!
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