"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 contemporary though and not something from 1976 (that means 20011/12 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.
EXAMPLE Representative Rosa L. DeLauro (D - Connecticut) has recently been named October's "Pooper of the Month" (Oops sorry that should be "Porker of the Month".) At a time when our nation is swaddled with almost $15 trillion in debt she has proposed the Diaper Investment and Aid to Promote Economic Recovery Act aka D.I.A.P.E.R. This legislation would make grants available to help those struggling in the US with among other things buying diapers. I am not a big fan of tax dollars being spent on cleaning up this mess. Something wreaks of this whole idea. This D.I.A.P.E.R. bill is flush with pork as well as other stuff that is hard to digest. It is a crappy legislation! Stop this unnecessary spending before anymore such D.I.A.P.E.R. rash decisions are made!
This is an assignment not extra credit. Credit given to the first 68 original entries and is due by the start of class on Nov. 4th.
Happy hunting for "pork".
Mr. Thompson
posted by erdecker @ 7:49 AM
80 comments
80 Comments:
My pork barrel spending example is by senator Robert Byrd from West Virgina. These earmarks spent 15,614,000 dollars on various projects that involved agriculture in Kearneysville. Some of the projects dealt with agriculture waste but these projects would only benefit West Virgina and more specificly the town of Kearneysville.
Brennan Arendt hour 6/7 10/31/11
My pork barrel spending example is by Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Thad Cochran, a Republican from Mississippi. He spent $4,000,000 for the Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center in Mississippi.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Spencer Johnson Hr. 3 Oct. 31, 2001
Senator Sam Brownback (R - Kanasas), a ranking member of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee has spent $12,500,000 on various research projects for the Kansas Livestock Foundation (such as polymer research, wheat genetics and phosphorous reduction) and workforce development projects for the Kansas Farm Bureau Foundation. The KFBF has also applied for a $7 million development grant, even though at the end of 2007 it had accumulated a balance of $98 million. Cool Brownback. Cool. How about you give me $12 million instead?
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Matthew Muroya. 3/4. 31 Oct. 2011
Sam Brownback, Pat Roberts, and Todd Tiahrt, Republicans from Kansas, spent $2,000,000 on the National Institute for Aviation Research in Kansas. The clients of this institute, major aerospace companies, should have paid for this themselves.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
--Shannon B.
All aboard! Representative Jerrod Nadler (D- New York) stated on January 27, 2011, that $117 billion dollars in federal funding for high-speed rails should be collected over the next 30 years. He claims that it will “generate an operating surplus of $900 million per year,” which is highly unlikely due to the fact that Amtrak has had to receive $37 billion in subsidies instead of making a profit when it was purchased by the government in 1971. For taxpayers, this means that you will be helping to pay for the outrageous cost of $22 billion to $132 billion per mile that the fancy choo choo trains will run. High-rail trains are supposed to cut down on carbon emissions and traffic congestion, but in reality the environmental benefits are lower than originally thought and congestion is primarily due to commuters, not inter-city travelers. Clearly, we should not be wasting our money on high-rail trains when our country is already in a gigantic amount of debt.
http://www.cagw.org/newsroom/porker-of-the-month/2011/cagw-names-rep-jerrold.html
Ashley Sadauskis Hour 3/4
My pork barrel spending example is by Senate Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman Herb Kohl from Wisconsin. He spent $12,423,000 11 projects, including: $4,000,000 for the Dairy Forage Agricultural Research Center , Prairie du Sac; $2,500,000 for the Dairy Forage Research Center , Marshfield (seeing a pattern? diary!) $950,000 for nutrition enhancement research; and $400,000 for the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture.
Source:http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
My pork barrel spending example is Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Floida. He spent $17,895,000 on 41 projects including $250,000 for turtle protection funding and a Gulf of Mexico grouper fishery program for NOAA, $200,000 for the National Coral Reef Institute at Nova Southeastern University, and $50,000 for a Gulf of Mexico recreational fishery electronic logbook pilot program at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Miriam Hanson hour 6/7 10/31/11
My pork barrel example is representative Buck McKeon a Republican from California. Buck originality wanted to have a $1 billion slush fund dubbed the Mission Force Enhancement Transfer Fund (MFET). Buck ended up getting $651.7 million. Looks like Buck went hunting and got himself some pork.
Shelley Berkely, the Nevada Democratic Representative secured a $350 million earmark in 2008 to help fund,Veterans Hospital in North Nevada, a $600 million project, that was passed this year. The tax that is going to be imposed on the citizens of Nevada will add up to be $58 per Nevada citizen.
Katie Krull Hour 3 10/31/11
$250,000 for a wireless area network for the city of Hartselle, Alabama, population 13,888. Proposed by Alabama Representative Robert Aderholt and Senator Richard Shelby.
http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2010-08/the-10-most-absurd-pork-barrel-spending-items-of-2010.aspx?storyid=32756
Texas senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Texas representative Ciro Rodriguez proposed that $693,000 go to beef improvement research in Missouri and Texas. The money ended up going to help cattle reproduce and grow faster.
http://www.investinganswers.com/a/13-most-absurd-pork-barrel-spending-projects-2010-1583
My example of pork barrel spending is by representatives from Idaho, Maryland, Wisconsin, and Maine. They had 2.5 million dollars to split between them and 1.5 million of it went to the competitive potato breeding research program. Another 700,000 went to potato pest management and the other 350,000 went to the potato cyst nematode special research grant.
http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2010-08/the-10-most-absurd-pork-barrel-spending-items-of-2010.aspx?storyid=32756
Kristi Taraba Hr. 3/4 Oct. 31, 2011
My pork barrel spending example is by representative Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii). She spent 17,692,000 for 14 projects including $6,000,000 for an energy sustainability program; $500,000 for a regional sediment management demonstration program in southeast Oahu; and $100,000 for a rainfall analysis in Hawaii.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Katie Johnson hr. 6/7
Taxpayers payed a total of $500,000 last year to renovate a ski lift. This one was tricky to find. The money came out of last years massive transportation bill with no mention of sking. Instead, "for the construction of the Alyeska Roundhouse in Girdwood, Alaska" no name, and vague. "If taxpayers are paying that much for a roundhouse, it had better be delivered by Chuck Norris," My question is, why are earmarks not public knowledge?
http://flake.house.gov/News/DocumentPrint.aspx?DocumentID=76208
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqRxNnjUEtM
In 2010, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat from Rhode Island) used $194,800 to help Historic Slater's Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, complete a historic restoration project. This was to help out one of Rhode Island's most visited sites with over 30,000 people visiting each year. They also boast net assets of $2,573,254.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
-Trisha DeWeerdt
My pork barrel spending example is Harold Rogers, A republican from New Jersey. This award winning character designated $10 million into founding the prestigious "National Institute of Hometown Security."
That's right,the national institute of hometown security. 10 million dollars. Let that sink in for a minute. Judging by its name i deduce that this is the national focal point when one wants a formal education in defending one's hometown, but that person is too posh to attend a police academy. What will they defend the hometown from? Probably from thugs and criminals that sneak around in the dead of night and steal signs.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/oinkers.html
-Laurence Kuisle Hours 3-4
KATIE TETZLOFF
Harry Reid is a democratic "porker" from Nevada who proposed a federally funded Cowboy Poetry Festival in a small town of only 17,000 people. This hoedown was previously paid for by the National Endowment for the Humanities budget, 146 million, but with budget cuts, the allotted money for the poetry slam was cut.
Harry Reid is a democratic "porker" from Nevada who proposed a federally funded Cowboy Poetry Festival in a small town of only 17,000 people. He asked for 146 million dollars to budget this festival in March of 2011.
Katie Tetzloff
http://www.cagw.org/newsroom/releases/2011/cagw-names-senator-harry-reid.html
Katie Tetzloff
http://www.cagw.org/newsroom/releases/2011/cagw-names-senator-harry-reid.html
Senator Lindsey Graham is accused of pork barrel spending for threatening to bring the senate to a stop over a $40,000 study for deepening the port in Charleston by three feet.
Senator Lindsey Graham is accused of pork barrel spending for threatening to bring the senate to a stop over a $40,000 study for deepening the port in Charleston by three feet.
Marissa Angus Hour 3/4
My pork barrel spending example is by Congressman Don Young, a Representative from Alaska. $10 Million dollars was used to connect Coconut Road, a deadend street, with the major Interstate I-75 in South Florida. It was supposed to go to improving I-75, but Young changed it and it became law without a congressional vote. He is/was under FBI investigation.
Alex Skrukrud, Hour 3/4, 11/1/11
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/18/eveningnews/main3730153.shtml
The Department of Energy (DoE) immolated $535 billion in taxpayer funds on a loan to Solyndra. The DoE’s loan guarantee program has been an ill-conceived corporate welfare giveaway program from the start and is so poorly managed that it was no surprise that a crony capitalistic creature like Solyndra would eventually slink out of that swamp.
House Agriculture Subcommittee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conneticut)included 9.355 billion dollars of unrelated funding into 10 bills. This money went to things such as Mosquito trapping research/West Nile Virus research in Florida (just under 1.5 millions dollars on this). Why do we need this research on mosquitos? and why can't the private companies doing the research pay for it themselves?
- Kelsey Hansen, 3/4 11/1/11
House version of the fiscal year Commerce Appropriations Act which contains 12 earmarks worth $368.4 million which were either not requested by the President, are a substantial increase over the budget request, or were just added by the House. One example is the $10,000,000 to the Salmon Management Activities Hatcheries.
--Sophia Goodner hour 6/7 11/1/11
Senator Mary Landrieu of Washington D.C. proposed spending $1,000,000 for upkeeping the Sewall-Belmont House, a historic house that is used for social events and the National Women's Party.
http://www.investinganswers.com/a/13-most-absurd-pork-barrel-spending-projects-2010-1583
Jacob Brewer Hour 6/7 Nov. 1, 2011
Senator Mike Begich has around 20,000,000 dollars annually coming in to fund for rescue, rehabilitation, and recovery of marine animals in Alaska. What about the rest of the animals around the U.S.? Shouldn't they all be getting money?
http://begich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/oceansandfisheries
-Nicole Kraushaar
My example of pork barrel spending is $500,000 for a new ferry service in Berkeley, Calif. Requested by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), these federal tax dollars will pay for the acquisition of two ferries, which would come equipped with solar panels.
http://naturaltreasure.net/scameras/?p=1213
My example of pork barrel spending is by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.). He asked for $200,000 for the Providence Holy Cross Foundation tattoo removal violence prevention program in Mission Hills, Calif.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2009/04/23/pork-barrel-projects-rampant-in-congresss-spending-for-2009-fiscal-year
My example of pork barrel spending is by David Obey (D-Wis). He wanted $7,965,000 for eight different projects like the Ice Age National Scenic Trails and restoration of the Bayfield historic courthouse, which really would only benefit Wisconsin.
-Heather Van Guilder hour 6/7
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
My example of pork barrel spending is by Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) who spent $198,150,000 for 37 projects which included: Hawaii Federal Health Care Network, Hawaii technology development venture, Center of Excellence for Research in Ocean Sciences for national maritime military applications and sustained technology-based economic development in Hawaii through annual competitive solicitations, and to support the creation of a mere 135 jobs with salaries of $740,000 per job. This is only going to help most of Hawaii with tourism and a frontier of oceanic exploration on the West Coast and most of the $198,000,000 will end up going to the Federal Health Care Network. However, only tourists go to Hawaii and the state only contains a small percentage of the total US population, so why spend most of the money towards the health care network in Hawaii when established institutions are on the mainland?
My Source Is http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
My pork barrel example is Republican Senator Richard Shelby from Alabama. Shelby is a ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science, and is responsible for stopping the Obama administration’s attempt to eliminate funding for the Constellation program, which is behind schedule and over budget. The program is $49 billion OVER the original $97 billion budget. Shelby stopped the program from facing budget cuts which lead him to become CAGW porker of the month.
Alyssa Alward HR 3/4
Catch a whiff of this! Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat from Iowa, recently earmarked $1.8 million to research pig odor and fecal management in Ames, Iowa. Our tax dollars are being used to find out why pigs smell. This example of pork barrel spending reeks of irony.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/15/political-pork-that-stinks-literally/
My pork barrel example is Obama's spending $18 million on a website that is already functional of tracking government stimulus spending in July 2009. This $18 million could go somewhere else besides to a website that just needs a little more decoration. Maybe Obama should focus on the debt of the nation and try and save some money instead of wasting it on something as pointless as this.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/recoverygov-redesign.html
My pork barrel spending example is by congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Alabama) who wants 47,500 federal taxpayer dollars going toward building a fence around Rountree airport to keep wild animals out. This airport has 14 aircrafts based but no air carriers or crafts use this one run way strip.
http://siu.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/24/same-ol-pork-barrel-congress/
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) requested the earmark within the “Ominous Spending Bill” (outlines the division of 1.1 trillion dollars through September 2011) that allows for a portion of said amount, totaling $496,000, to be given to the Department of Interior and Department of Environment Section for the specific purpose of creating fish (specifically, salmon) passage in various streams in a few different locations in Alaska. Huh? 14 trillion dollars in debt & we’re spending tax money on creating salmon passage. smh
http://biggovernment.com/snkapadia/2010/12/15/no-end-to-pork-barrel-spending-why-we-are-going-broke/
Bektu Solomon Nov. 2 2011
The Department of Energy (DoE) immolated $535 billion in taxpayer funds on a loan to Solyndra,Solyndra was a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of CIGS thin-film solar cells based in Fremont, California.On September 1, 2011, the company ceased all business activity, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and laid off all employees.
http://www.cagw.org/newsroom/releases/2011/cagw-taxpayers-go.html
Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa requested $10 million for his self-titled program benefiting Iowa’s public schools.
-Kyle Andrews
Senators Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Representative John Boozman (R-Ark.) want to spend 775,000 dollars on one of the Institute of Food Science and Engineering programs called "Pickle Science and Technology" which will improve the production and quality of pickled vegetables. Now this puts our already in debt country in quite the pickle, huh?
--Liz Rime
oh and there's my source
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Senator Olympia Snow, Chellie Pingree, and Mike Michaud acquired $200,000 to research lobsters in the Marine Department of Marine Resources.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
My pork barrel spending example is by Senate Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md). Her plan involves spending $28,500,000 on 21 projects. The oyster renovation alone will cost 3 million dollars.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/#II_Commerce_Justice_Science
-Noelle Bellows Hr.6/7 Nov 2, 2011
My pork barrel spending is $2,000,000 spent by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) and
Rep. Dean Heller (R) in Nevada for Carson City for renewable energy sustainable projects.Yup, $2 Million for one city...
and my source:
http://www.cagw.org/assets/pig-book-files/2010/2010-pig-book-summary.pdf
Senate CJS Appropriations Subcommittee member Fank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J) spent $500,000 for emergency operations center interoperability equipment for city of Newark. Inspite of listing Newark as one of the 26 entities, which are ineligible for the stimulus money, representatives have spend the tax payer's money.
My example of pork barrel is of Kurt schrader of Ohio, a democrat in the house of representatives. Schrader has spent over 700,000 dollars on small fruit research in the agricultural department.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/earmarks.php?cid=N00030071&cycle=2010
example of Kurt schrader by Amy C. hr. 6/7
My pork barrel spending example is by Democratic Representative John Murtha who is considered one of "the kings of pork". He has designated a location 5 miles east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania in the Johnstown-Cambria County to build an airport. However, the airport only offers three commercial flights. The average number of passengers each day is fewer than 30 people. The airport may not see many passengers, but it has seen many arrivals of tax dollars from Washington. Murtha airport has received almost $200 million from Washington. Much of the funding has come in the form of legislative earmarks (which is approved funds spent on specific projects) that are attached to bills before Congress. Murtha explains that this airport is designed to "attract additional business" to the Johnstown area.
Leyla Budimlic
Hour 3/4
11-2-11
My pork barrel example is by Rep. Peter MacGregor (R) who on June 16, 2011 introduced a bill to continue earmarking $7 million from cell phone taxes intended to pay for 9-1-1 emergency services instead for a State Police radio system in Michigan
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=138656
I was incredibly surprised at the number of pork barrel spending that is actually going on. The places it is being spent in most cases seems silly and could be used in other, more important ways. One example requested by House appropriator Lucille Roybal-Allard. They spent around $300,000 on youth soccer gang prevention. These funds went to two organizations in the U.S. I have a feeling this is not something important to a majority of the U.S. population.
The July 2000 Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), whose home state is hosted the 2002 Winter Games, wrangled $3.3 million in federal funds to test athletes for drugs. That meant taxpayers were footing the bill for 75 percent of the $4.3 million Olympic drug-testing budget. According to Bennett, "A drug-free Games is an important message to send to the world. It is appropriate that the federal government take part in this anti-drug effort." The real war on cocaine, heroin, and other dangerous drugs continues across the country, but Sen. Bennett apparently thinks taxpayers should be more worried about those speed skaters who look just a bit too buff. While illicit drug use of any kind, in or out of athletic competition, is unacceptable. Do the organizers of the Olympic Games really need the U.S. government paying for their screening program? After all, the Salt Lake Olympic Committee cashed in on an $859 million joint marketing agreement, $443 million from broadcast rights, and $180 million from ticket sales. With all that money rolling in, federal subsidies for drug testing are hardly necessary. I think that money made from that Olympic Games should be use to repay taxpayers for putting up the bill to host the Olympic.
freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msgmac27/porkbarrel.rtf
- my link
I posted the comment on Robert Bennett.
Alvin.
Robert Bennett (R-Utah)is a ranking member in the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee and is a pork barrel spender. He has hogged about $51,250,000 involving agriculture in Utah.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Senators Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)sponsor a bill called the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Bill. This bill has many cases of pork in it, such as $19,746,000 for the Essential Air Service. The Essential Air Service spends up to thousands of dollars on its passengers, but much of that money is only providing services to areas with fewer than 30 passengers a day. Also, this bill would help Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, mortgage giants that already received a bail-out from taxpayer money, by raising the cap on the size of loan that can be purchased.
http://www.cagw.org/newsroom/releases/2011/cagw-releases-analysis-of-1.html
http://www.cagw.org/newsroom/releases/2011/ccagw-outraged-by.html
Senator Hillary Clinton helped pass bills with more than $340 million in projects for her home state of New York in 2008. I wish one of our Senator's would do this for our state. Maybe a couple more ice rinks here and there in the great state of Minnesota. "The Taxpayers for Common Sense" said that she was in the top ten Senate recipients of what are commonly known as earmarks.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/02/14/clinton_linked_to_340m_in_earmarks/
My pork barrel spending example is by Senate Judd Gregg from New Hampshire who spent 100,000 dollars for the New Hampshire Lakes Association to prevent the spread of exotic aquatic weeds, such as milfoil, in the state's lakes. What about Minnesota's land of 10,000 lakes?
http://www.datehookup.com/Thread-709241.htm
Brianna Axtell hour 6/7
And 300,000$ to Massaro Community Farm in Conneticut
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
- Kelsey Hansen
Florida congress member Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla.) spent $26,360,000 for a fitness facility in Mayport Naval Station, when the Jacksonville Snap Fitness Center was only 10.5 miles away. The cost for the Jacksonville Snap Fitness would $44.95 a month. The amount of money Crenshaw spent to build in Mayport is equivalent to more than 48,000 year memberships at Jacksonville.
Tram Nguyen hr 3/4
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Ron Paul wants about $2,500,000 to throw at revitalizing the 'historic' downtown Baytown. I don't know about you guys, but I never heard of the place until I started researching this assignment. It's important to note that this money won't go to fixing the roads; instead, it will go to new trashcans, bike racks, and 'festive lighting.' C'mon, Paul - this ain't Disneyland. Just fix the roads and most people will be happy.
- Eli Newberg
(Source: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=240025)
((I know it's from December 2010...but it's close enough, right?))
(((And before anyone asks, yes, I know my Google account is displayed; and yes, I know how stupid the name is, but I've had the name since 2003, so it's kind of like my 'internet I.D.')))
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My example of pork barrel spending is the $693,000 for beef improvement research in Missouri and Texas by Senate appropriator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and House appropriator Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas). According to beef.org (the beef industry’s website), “Consumers’ love of great steaks and burgers, their confidence in the safety of U.S. beef and their renewed interest in the nutritional benefits of protein help create strong demand for beef. Consumer spending on beef was $76 billion in 2008 and has grown $26.9 billion since 1999. Per capita spending for beef in retail and foodservice was about $249 in 2008 — up about $50 from 2001. In 2008, per capita consumption of beef was 59.9 pounds, compared to 59.2 pounds for chicken.” Taxpayers have a real beef paying for this big fat earmark.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Hannah Church
An interesting take on Pork Barrel spending--it's almost as if the author of this article, Dan Shapley, believes tucking 'little' eco pork bits into various bills so there is little to no debate on their instatement.
At any rate, Shapely's article is full of eco-friendly pork that seems relatively harmless, but also very, very expensive. The article lists causes seeking funds such as 'Weather technology and observation at Plymouth State University' and 'Rio Grande endangered species collaborative program' (both calling for about $200,000).
It seems however, that there is some pork within this pork (cannibalism?), as some of the expenses listed are along the lines of "$800,000 for a tunnel at Yosemite National Park", which doesn't seem like much of a green issue to me.
read more (many, MANY more ) here:
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/pig-book-47041403
Sorry, I didn't see that the one I just entered was already posted.
Another example is:
$100,000 by Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) for career exploration and training for at-risk youths for jobs in filmmaking at the Duke Media Foundation in Hollywood.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Hannah Church
Arkansas Congressman Robert Marion Berry, democrat, spends $110,000 on flood prevention along a 6 mile creek in Arkansas. Berry plans to build multiple damns and flood systems using U.S. tax dollars from the whole country.
Sources:
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/pork-database.html
http://www.ar.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/watersheds_pl566.html
My pork barrel example is by John McCain. He made a $165,000 earmark to Vermont for maple syrup research. Vermont had a bad harvesting year, and it was claimed that the research money would help the process to be more efficient and would cut costs for consumers. Apparently, the maple syrup industry generates $200 million for just Vermont's economy (there are maple syrup industries elsewhere, but mostly in Vermont).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/16/john-mccain-maple-syrup-research_n_797954.html
(This example is from December 2010, which I hope is recent enough)
-Jonah Mueller
LIGHTS. CAMERA. PORK?
Sen. Chuck Hagel, a republican from Nebraska, decided that National Treasure: Book of Secrets was a personal religious experience worth spending $1000 of the government's money to buy out the movie theater and watch it alone in peace.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/group-blasts-porkbarrel-spending,8399/
Now that's not really legit pork, so here's a fishy example that will make you clam up with fear. Mike Castle,a republican from Delaware, manage to get congress to shell out 19 million dollars to fund a free- clam program. Aw how nice! He wants to feed to poor with clams! Oh wait...what is that smell?! It's the smell of Mike Castle giving free clams to EVERYONE who has never tasted a clam before. Thank Moses for men like Mike Castle who look out for the clamless public.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/odonnell-tax-cuts-delaware/2010/09/08/id/369615
-Becca Rose
Sen. Thad Cochran, a republican from Mississippi spent 200,000 for the Washington National Opera, for set design, and installation and performing arts at libraries and schools. That much money for music and arts at school? The focus should be on the students classes and their success. (Not saying that music and art aren't important, there's just things that are more important)
http://www.examiner.com/fiscal-responsibility-in-national/citizens-against-government-waste-point-at-pork
Logan Adair. 6/7
Representative Michele Bachmann (R - Minnesota)is attempting to push for (with the help of Democratic Senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar) a $690 million project to replace a 2 lane drawbridge with a 4 lane one to connect Stillwater (Population of 20,000) to the even smaller town of Houlton. I don't see why a town a fifth of the size of Rochester needs a 4 lane bridge, but then again I'm not the most intelligent person in the world either.
Sources:
http://earlcapps.blogspot.com/2011/08/michele-bachmanns-dirty-little-pork.html
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/178479-bachmanns-bridge-project-could-draw-gop-rivals-fire
Daniel Klinkhammer - Hour 6/7
My pork barrel spender is Alan Mollohan. He is a house representative from West Virginia. He is from the democratic party. He spent 17,976,000 dollars across 33 projects. The largest of which was 1.5 million for natural stream design and restoration at the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources.
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Dylon Jamison
Hr. 4
This year, minority leader Nancy Pelosi requested $500,000 for a new ferry service in Berkeley, California. The tax dollars would be used to pay for two new ferries. As if we need to put our faith in fairies. . .
The link for my example is:
http://naturaltreasure.net/scameras/?p=1213
Scratch the Nancy Pelosi comment (didn't notice someone had done that one already)
This comes from the same website. Michigan House Representative Mark Schauer has requested $150,000 to renovate the Tibbits Opera House in Coldwater, Mich.
This same renovation could've been paid for by simply raising ticket prices by $3.56. Doesn't seem like the whole country needs to help out when we won't be watching any shows there.
Reading through a few of these I noticed that Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Mississippi has already been mentioned a few times. It seems this porker likes to get around. This time he is being noted for providing $500,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi, for the purpose of cannabis eradication. I know that this country declared a war on drugs but 500,000 dollars to try to get rid of something that can be found growing in ditches at a college campus seems a bit excessive in the spending department.
my prok barrel spending example is by Politicians on both sides of the isle, add personal projects into appropriations and authorization bills. They do this to try to win voter approval and support, back at home. Here are some examples one is $3.1 million to convert a ferry boat into a crab restaurant in Baltimore.$6.4 million for a Bavarian ski resort in Kellogg, Idaho.
$13 million to repair a privately owned dam in South Carolina.
$4.3 million for a privately owned museum in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
http://porkbarrelspending.com/
omar mohamed
Edit- Harold Rogers is from new jersey as i said earlier, but i forgot to specify what his position was. Well he is a Representative.
Eric Cantor, after berating Nevada about how the proposed railway to connect Las Vegas and Disneyland was wasteful pork-barrel spending, then lobbies the Transportation Department for over $3 billion in stimulus money on a high-speed-rail project in his home state of Virgina. He justifies this by claiming that Virginia will demonstrate this investment in rail will create jobs, reduce congestion, spur economic growth and improve the environment.
http://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2011/11/01/republicans-on-pork-street/
--Nick Fallenstein Hours: 6,7
It looks like $349,000 was set aside for swine and other waste management by Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), House appropriator David Price (D-N.C.) and Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.)in 2010. Really getting into their pork spending mantra if you know what I mean!
http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA), who ranks 28th out of the 100 in amount of money in her 145 earmarks of 2010, supported a $500,000 earmark in an Interior Bill for an Endangered Whooping Crane Propagation Facility, to incubate Whooping Crane eggs through the Audubon Institute in New Orleans, in 2010. This ruffled my feathers. With all this whooping around with tax dollars, no wonder we have a fowl outlook on reduction of this year's deficit.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/earmarks.php?cid=n00005395
~Kjirsten Savage Hr. 3 11/04/11
Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont wants to spend $165,000 to staff and supply a maple syrup research facility a syrup company built with its own money. Worried that Canada is gaining too much ground in the industry, Leahy argues making syrup is a vital part of Vermont's economy. They want to study a non-traditional technique for producing syrup, but do they really need a dedicated testing facility and that kind of money for staff - for maple syrup??? Just get some guts and a pioneering spirit, and live it on the edge. That is how America became great after all.
http://www.newser.com/story/107769/maple-syrup-research-no-joke-industry-to-john-mccain.html
Bryan Kotschevar, Hr. 3, 11/01/11
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/15/political-pork-that-stinks-literally/
WHO: Senator Tom Harkin
WHERE: Iowa
WHAT&HOW MUCH: spent $1.8 million to figure out the why pigs smell how they do and how they should manage feces in Iowa.
Caitlin O'Connor
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