Alabama Sports Hall of Fame among recipients
Thursday, April 07, 2005
By SEAN REILLY
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- After once ridiculing Democrats for so-called pork-barrel spending, Republicans have outdone them since taking control of Congress a decade ago, one GOP lawmaker lamented Wednesday as a new report showed that the volume of such projects has soared to a new high.
"We came into office and we made it far worse," said U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona. Flake spoke at a news conference marking the release of the 2005 "Pig Book," the latest rundown of pork spending by Citizens Against Government Waste, a Washington, D.C., advocacy group.
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For this fiscal year, Congress stuffed the budget with $27.3 billion in pork, the report continues, a 19 percent jump over 2004. The total number of projects was up 31 percent during the same time to 13,997.
Among the projects singled out for special notice: $100,000 for the Tiger Woods Foundation, $6.3 million for wood utilization research and a $25,000 appropriation for a Nevada school system to develop a curriculum for teaching mariachi music. The report also raps $1.4 million in federal spending for various "halls of fame" around the country, including the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame in Wisconsin and the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in Birmingham.
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http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1112865421176050.xmlSessions is the poster child for a suck-up Repug wannabe. If Bushco had a dead baby BBQ on the White House lawn, he'd bring the babies and say that how geat the idea was.