The 2008 Congressional Pig Book Summary is here…and we need your help!
Today, at a 9:30 a.m. EDT national press conference, Citizens Against Government (CAGW) will be naming the names of those in Congress who are responsible for the 11,610 pork-barrel projects costing you $17.2 billion in the fiscal 2008 budget. We will be joined by leading opponents of this congressionally earmarked spending, including Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Reps. John Campbell (R-Calif.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Tom Price (R-Ga.), and Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
Topping this year’s list of outrageous special-interest projects are:
$4,840,870 for wood utilization research;
$1,529,220 for the Appalachian Fruit Lab;
$984,400 for Idaho's strategic plan for managing noxious weeds; and
$98,000 for a walking tour of Boydton, Va. (population 474).
Noxious is right! As you can see, despite last year’s ethics and lobbying “reform,” pork-barrel earmarks - the currency of corruption in Washington, D.C. - are alive and well.
