Tom Schatz announced the April Porkers of the Month - Reps. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.) – on CNBC’s Pork Watch today. Rep. Tiahrt also appeared on the segment to defend his interference with the defense procurement process.
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CAGW Names Reps. Dicks and Tiahrt Porkers of the Month Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Reps. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.) April Porkers of the Month for threatening to reverse a $35 billion Air Force refueling tanker contract award to Northrop Grumman. The losing bidder, the Boeing Company, [...]
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CBS Evening News’ Sharyl Attkisson reports on an earmark for the wealthy Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. This project is listed in the 2008 Congressional Pig Book: $1,648,850 for the Shedd Aquarium by Senate appropriator Richard Durbin (D-Ill), Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), House appropriator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.). The aquarium’s website says [...]
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Today’s Washington Post relates yesterday’s developments on the investigation into the $10 million Coconut Road earmark. After the Senate rejected Sen. Coburn’s amendment to convene a bicameral panel to get to the bottom of the mystery of how this earmark morphed from a general purpose earmark to widen I-75 in Florida into what could potentially be a political pay-off to a campaign contributor of Rep. [...]
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Moments ago we heard that the Senate Democrats have set a 60-vote supermajority for passage of Sen. Coburn’s amendement to initiate a bipartisan investigation into how the $10 million earmark to widen a portion of I-75 in Florida back in the 2005 highway bill morphed mysteriously into a corporate welfare earmark for a land developer with ties [...]
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So says Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)! And she’s right. Why, then, doesn’t she want the Senate to uncover the truth about who that person might be? Not surprisingly, the subject is congressional earmarking and the corruptive habits earmarking engenders in Washington’s political class. The 2008 technical corrections bill to the 2005 Transportation Authorization bill is currently bogged down in the Senate [...]
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OK, follow me here. The House is now dealing with a “technical corrections” bill related to the 2005 Transportation Authorization bill, SAFTEA-LU. Oddly enough, it is called the Technical Corrections Act of 2008. Technical corrections bills are usually aimed at fixing minor drafting errors and making small edits in the previously-passed legislation. But technical corrections bills have gained an increasingly [...]
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The Washington Post’s duo of James V. Grimaldi and Jacqueline Trescott have once again exposed lavish and wasteful spending and mismanagement at the Smithsonian Institution. I wrote about this exactly a year ago for CAGW’s WasteWatcher. Read the litany of stories of chronic Smithsonian boondoggles and bumbling here and here and here, all by the same two reporters at [...]
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Former President Clinton (who is among those who have claimed to be unfairly undertaxed and should put his money where his mouth is) has taken full advantage of the perks available to him for having held the presidential office. The Politico reports: Taxpayers fund Bill Clinton spending The Clintons have made a $100-million fortune since leaving the [...]
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King of Pork Sen. Robert C. Byrd had some choice words for CAGW in response to the 2008 Pig Book. W.Va. Again Ranks High on Federal ‘Pork’ List “This annual report, done by Washington insiders, is pure hogwash,” he stated. “An earmark may be pork to some political chatter box on television, but to many [...]
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