Posted on April 21, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
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 the facility [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2008 by Leslie Paige
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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Posted on April 10, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
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 communities in [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2008 by Leslie Paige
because that wouldn’t be fair. It’s just that his list of earmark requests for fiscal year 2009 happens to be among the first to begin trickling out to the public.
It won’t be long until he is joined by a legion of other pork-barrel spenders and we’ll try to keep you abreast of the tsunami of requests that continue to roll into the committees. [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
The Onion (a satirical newspaper) has a great blurb mocking wasteful and ridiculous earmarks:
Group Blasts Pork-Barrel Spending
The watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste has released its latest edition of the “Pig Book,” a list of government earmark spending the organization considers egregious. Here are some of the expenditures cited by the report:
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
WETM NY - Kuhl Cited For Wasteful Spending on Elmira College
WJLA Washington - Area Tops List for Pet Pork Projects
KSN Kansas - Pork report finds lawmakers “pigging out”
Fox Boston - Let It Rip: Congress and Pork Spending
Fox New York - Annual Pig Book On Government Waste
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
Watch video
Read article:
‘Pig book’ puts pet spending in spotlight
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
Posted on April 3, 2008 by Martin Rundle
This morning we have a double cut of pork for you with our friends Sen. Jim DeMint and Rep. Jeff Flake discussing earmarks on Fox News. Video links below.
Pig Book on Fox News with Sen. DeMint
Pig Book on Fox News with Rep. Flake
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Posted on April 2, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
Oink! Book Has Congress’ Biggest Porkers
Report Shows Where Billions Of Tax Dollars Are Going: Earmarks
…”You know, when you’re at war, and you know you got a war on two fronts, the first thing you think of is golf, isn’t it?” said Leslie Paige, vice president of the tax watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste. “That’s [...]
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Posted on April 2, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
Update: video
Congress Serves Up $17.2 Billion in Pork
From Shrimp to Beer, ‘Pig Book’ Lays Out Congressional Pork-Barrel Spending Projects
This year’s “Pig Book” from the nonprofit Citizens Against Government Waste details some of these congressional earmarks : $7.5 million spent on grape and wine research; $460,000 for research on hops; and $3 million to $72,000 for [...]
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Posted on April 2, 2008 by Martin Rundle
Here’s some more media coverage of the 2008 Pig Book
CNN coverage of the Pig Book Press Conference.
Video Pig Book on CNN (via YouTube)
Article ‘Pig Book’ names congressional porkers
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Posted on April 2, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
The 2008 Pig Book will be available at www.cagw.org at 9:30am eastern.
To whet your appetite, watch Tom Schatz on this morning’s CNBC Squawk Box discussing the Pig Book.
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Posted on April 1, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
We are working hard here at CAGW to release the 2008 Congressional Pig Book tomorrow. There will be a press conference at 9:30am at the National Press Club and the Pig Book summary and database, and video highlights will be available at www.cagw.org shortly thereafter.
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by Alexa Moutevelis
Save the date! The annual 2008 Congressional Pig Book will be unveiled at a press conference at 9:30a.m. on April 2, 2008.
The event will take place at the National Press Club with several members of Congress in attendance. Mascot PigFoot will be there with his friends - live pigs - Winnie and Dudley.
Click here to [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Take a look at this submission by Public Citizen’s lobbyist Craig Holman which appeared in yesterday’s Roll Call ($):
‘Bridges to Nowhere’ Are No More
Call them earmarks, if you must, but they ain’t the “pork” of yesteryear. Minnesota Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D) and Norm Coleman (R) added a $195 million earmark to the omnibus appropriations bill to rebuild the collapsed [...]
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Posted on January 4, 2008 by Leslie Paige
The word around here is that the President is still mulling his options and that he could still sign an executive order nullifying the earmarks contained in the conference report attached to massive omnibus spending bill which he signed into law in December.
CAGW wrote a letter yesterday to OMB Director Jim Nussle urging the White [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Using the database that our friends at the Heritage Foundation created, we counted up the number of earmarks requested by presidential candidates who have served in Congress. There are some eye-popping numbers in this list….especially that first one:
An examination of the Heritage Foundation’s database of the earmarks in the fiscal 2008 omnibus appropriations bill revealed the total number received by Presidential [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2007 by Leslie Paige
On December 28th, Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee held a conference call with bloggers. Our friend Robert Bluey over at the Heritage Foundation made good use of our recent release on the candidates’ ratings and asked Gov. Huckabee about what he would do about the epidemic of earmarks. Robert shared the exchange with us, so here it is:
Robert Bluey Question: Governor, [...]
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Posted on December 24, 2007 by Leslie Paige
Below is the full text of the letter that CAGW, along with 19 other fiscal watchdog groups sent to President Bush asking him to use an executive order to strike all the more than 9000 earmarks from that abysmal omnibus spending bill that passed right before everyone scattered to celebrate the holidays:
Mr. President:
This past week, Congress passed [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2007 by Leslie Paige
An interesting report from Congressional Quarterly came down the pipeline Friday evening. Apparently, in the contentious negotiations over the 2008 budget House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wisc.) may be engaged in a very clever game of brinksmanship with House Republicans, the end game of which is to force a deal with the White House over the $22 billion chasm [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2007 by Leslie Paige
Once again, President Bush has signaled that Congress has gone hog wild, this time by spending too much on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations. He intends to veto the bill, and he should.
Here is our Pork Alert on the THUD approps bill, crammed full of outrageous earmarks.
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Posted on November 14, 2007 by Leslie Paige
Today the Transportation/HUD conference report was released….
This will link you directly to conference report. CAGW is cranking out some numbers as we speak and we’ll have a Pork Alert out by the end of the day.
One serious head’s up, though: The THUD bill contains a provision tucked away on pg. 79 which will gut essential transparency provisions. [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2007 by Alexa Moutevelis
Today CAGW released a list of the most egregious pork projects we found in the 2008 Defense appropriations bill.
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Posted on October 16, 2007 by Alexa Moutevelis
10/16/07 Breitbart
Human waste can help save planet: Indian expert
A cheap system to recycle human waste into biogas and fertiliser may allow 2.6 billion people in the world access to toilets and reduce global warming, an Indian environmental expert said Tuesday.
Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of the Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, said his group plans to push [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2007 by Alexa Moutevelis
Taxpayers still steamed about Sparta Teapot Museum:
10/16/07 Winston-Salem Journal
Museum plan is being revised
A wealthy art collector from Los Angeles said this month that he has pulled out of a commitment to exclusively display his eclectic collection of teapots at a museum in Sparta intended for them.
The Sparta Teapot Museum has raised $4.2 million, including more [...]
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