1,866 earmarks in Energy and Water Bill

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  July 16th at 07:58 AM  | 

Want to see a full list of the earmarks in the Energy and Water Bill that the House is about to begin debating? Well, I hope you have some stamina because there are 1,866 of them to read. You’ll notice that many of them are being requested by “the President.” That would be the Barack Obama 2012 re-election campaign project you are seeing there. For | Read More »

CAGW’s 2008 Pig Book Released!

By: Warner Todd Huston (Diary)  |  April 7th at 06:47 AM  | 

Citizens Against Government Waste is announcing the release of the 2008 Pig Book. The Congressional Pig Book (download in pdf format) is CAGW’s annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2008 Pig Book identified 11,610 projects at a cost of $17.2 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2008. A “pork” project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that | Read More »