[jgrubbs]

Includes the following pork projects:

$725,000 Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
$200,000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio
$1,800,000 2003 Women’s World Cup Tournament
$6,000,000 Police Athletic League
$250,000 Call Me Mister program, Clemson University
$500,000 New England Amer-I-Can Program
$150,000 Rock School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
$16,000 National Distance Running Hall of Fame, Utica, New York
$225,000 Hawaii statehood celebration
$325,000 Construction of a swimming pool in Salinas, California
$100,000 History competition during National History Day in Iowa
$175,000 Therapeutic Horse man ship center, Hoffman Homes for Youth, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
$315,000 Formosan Subterranean Termite research
$100,000 Public service recognition week
$50,000 Father Maloney’s Boy’s Haven, Louisville, Kentucky
$75,000 Vintage Radio Programs and Jazz Museum, East Stroudsburg University
$100,000 Kids Rock Free educational program, Fender Museum of the Arts Foundation, Corona, California
$100,000 Renovation of the historic Coca-Cola building in Macon, Georgia
$100,000 Construction of an intergenerational daycare center in San Fernando Valley, California
$372,000 B&O Railroad Museum emergency restoration, Baltimore, Maryland
$75,000 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Washington, DC
$225,000 Construction of Blue-Gray Civil War Theme Park, Kentucky
$75,000 North Pole Transit System JARC Program, Alaska
$250,000 Feasibility study of establishing Suffolk (Virginia) Workforce Development Center
$350,000 Construction for a folk cultural center in Pinellas County, Florida
$400,000 Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
$90,000 Olive fruitfly research
$150,000 Traffic light, Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District, New York
$100,000 People for People, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
$100,000 Amphitheater construction, North Star Productions, Inc., Bracken County, Kentucky
$2,000,000 First Tee program
$150,000 Regional Youth Baseball Complex Lancaster, California
$100,000 John Singelton Mosby Museum Foundation in Warrenton, Virginia
$180,000 Seafood waste research, Fairbanks, Alaska
$400,000 Walla Walla Public Schools, Walla Walla, Washington
$900,000 Kincaid Park Trail Connection, Alaska
$20,000 Southern Star Development Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky
$85,000 Comprehensive Transportation Plan for Lewisburg, West Virginia
$100,000 Norman Hall project, University of Florida
$225,000 Museum of Aviation Foundation Inc, Warner Robins, Georgia
$250,000 Lou Frey Institute of Politics, University of Central Florida
$270,000 Sustainable olive production
$5,000,000 Kennedy Center Potomac River Pedestrian and Bike Path
$100,000 National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
$200,000 Cedar glades research
$250,000 Theater construction, Studio for the Arts, Pocahontas, Arkansas
$2,000,000 Intermodal Transload Facility, Quincy, Washington
$110,000 Construction of a dental clinic in Bassfield, Mississippi
$220,000 New Mexico Retail Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico
$400,000 Davenport Music History Museum, Davenport, Iowa
$3,000,000 US 12 Widening, Wallula Junction to Walla Walla, Washington
$25,000 Alex Haley House Museum, Henning, Tennessee
$225,000 Rialto Square Theater, Joliet, Illinois
$5,000,000 Project SOCRATES
$90,000 Rabbit Run Community Arts Association, Madison, Ohio
$150,000 Renovation off Farmers market, Dallas, Texas
$200,000 Merit School of Music’s after school program
$200,000 Advanced Traffic Analysis Center, North Dakota
$250,000 Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
$400,000 National Center for American Revolution, Wayne, Pennsylvania
$1,000,000 Hal Rogers Parkway, Kentucky
$1,000,000 Ship Creek Improvements, Alaska
$2,000,000 I-SAFE America
$50,000 National Canal Museum, Easton, Pennsylvania
$100,000 Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea
$200,000 Renovation of First National Bank Building, Greenfield, Massachusetts
$250,000 Martha’s Village and Kitchen, Indio, California
$270,000 Potato storage
$1,000,000 Transylvania Community Hospital, Brevard, North Carolina
$6,000,000 Treasure Island Bridge
$80,000 Hot Springs Bike Trail, Arkansas
$90,000 Karnal bunt research, Manhattan, Kansas
$175,000 Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
$210,000 O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, Virginia
$250,000 James S. Taylor Memorial Home, Louisville, Kentucky
$250,000 Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago, Illinois
$500,000 Traffic Signal Replacement Program, New Rochelle, New York
$2,000,000 Parents Anonymous
$100,000 "Servicing our Youth"
$275,000 Refurbishment of the Coach George E. Ford Center, Powder Springs, Georgia
$150,000 Piper’s Opera House Programs, Inc., Virginia City, Nevada
$270,000 U.S. Vegetable Lab
$1,250,000 US-2, Dover Bridge, Bonner County, Idaho
$25,000 Capitol Area Boy Scouts
$113,000 Healing Place, Louisville, Kentucky
$500,000 Jim Thorpe Bridge Renovation Project, Pennsylvania
$600,000 Web Wise Kids
$800,000 Mammoth Lakes Bus Purchase, California
$100,000 Renovate the Jamestown (Ohio) Opera House
$400,000 Ed Roberts Campus transit center, California
$750,000 The Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing & Able program
$160,000 Grapevine Bus Purchase, Texas
$500,000 Round Rock Higher Education Center, Southwest Texas State University
$1,400,000 Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona
$25,000 Transylvania County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Citizens Observer Patrol and Education Team
$200,000 Chaldean Community Culture Center, West Bloomfield, Michigan
$300,000 Milwaukee Summer Stars
$450,000 Johnny Appleseed Heritage Center, Inc., Ashland County, Ohio
$750,000 Intelligent Transportation Systems, Wichita Transit Authority
$1,500,000 Operation Streetsweeper
$125,000 Planning for new route over Cape Fear River, North Carolina
$300,000 Omnitrans—Paratransit Vehicles, California
$500,000 Bike path, St. Petersburg, Florida
$1,000,000 WestStart Vehicular Flywheel Project, Washington
$15,000 Pines of Peace, Inc., Ontario, New York
$75,000 U.S. Dream Academy, Inc., Columbia, Maryland
$200,000 Oneont Bus Replacement, New York
$450,000 Trout Genome Mapping
$500,000 LOVE Social Services, Fairbanks, Alaska
$750,000 Broken Bow rail spur, Oklahoma
$2,000,000 Tools for Tolerance program, California
$150,000 National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation
$1,000,000 DelTrac Statewide Integration, Delaware

[jgrubbs]

This is by far the largest single helping of federal pork that Pennsylvania and New Jersey has ever won:

at least $390 million for Pennsylvania
at least $225 million for New Jersey

[jgrubbs]

This is by far the largest single helping of federal pork that Pennsylvania and New Jersey has ever won:

at least $390 million for Pennsylvania
at least $225 million for New Jersey

[CSM]

What is the total budget? $2 Trillion?

[Naspino]

I think we added it up before to something like 68 million. Out of two trillion its nothing. I'd rather cut the major offenders (education and healthcare).

[jgrubbs]

More "conservative" spending bump!

[mabelkitty]

Olive fruitfly research?
My interpretation: annual salary given to someone's brother-in-law so he'll quit asking when some Congresscritter was going to get him a job

that or just plain extortion pay-off.

[Pagey]

If what you list is true, then I submit the following from Stephen Moores "OUR UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONGRESS":
In 1827, the famous Davy Crockett was elected to the House of Representatives. During his first term of office, a $10,000 relief bill for the widow of a naval officer was proposed. Colonel Crockett rose in stem opposition and gave the following eloquent and successful rebuttal:

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money".

In a famous incident in 1854, President Franklin Pierce courageously vetoed an extremely popular bill intended to help the mentally ill saying: "I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity." To approve such spending, he argued, "would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded." Grover Cleveland, the king of the veto, rejected hundreds of congressional spending bills during his two terms as president in the late 1800s, because, as he often wrote: "I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution."

Were Jefferson, Madison, Crockett, Pierce, and Cleveland merely hardhearted and uncaring penny pinchers, as their critics have often charged? Were they unsympathetic toward fire victims, the mentally ill, widows, or impoverished refugees? Of course not. They were honor bound to uphold the Constitution. They perceived - we now know correctly - that once the government genie was out of the bottle, it would be impossible to get it back in.

[RockyMtnMan]

A good example of incrementalism, individually most of these seem like no big deal (even though they don't belong in a FEDERAL budget), but all added up it's a big helping of pork.

Bush had better use his veto on this one.

[zbigreddogz]

Good ole' Jonny McCain is right about this. Nobody loves Bush more then I do, but he should say something along the lines of "Cut out $10 Billion in pork or I'm vetoing it."

I'm thinking specifically the pork for South Dakota, Washington (my home state), California, Lousiana, etc. (noticing a patern here?)

But heck, I'm an equal opprotunity cutter. They can cut pork from some states with Republican Senators too.

[CholeraJoe]

$315,000 Formosan Subterranean Termite research

If you had ever seen the devastation that can be wrought by Formosan Termites, you wouldn't think this is pork. Think killer bees that eat wood. Within 10 years, there won't be any trees left in New Orleans due to these pests.

[God is good]

You made the list. You the man!!!

[God is good]

$2,000,000 Tools for Tolerance program, California

I really like that one.

[wjcsux]

Includes the following pork projects:
I am glad the government isn't wasting any of our money on frivolous stuff.

[plain talk]

Thanks. Didn't see any pork for Alabama. Where's my pork? Only pork we got down here is Johnny Ray's BBQ.

[Krodg]

$180,000 Seafood waste research, Fairbanks, Alaska

That's a lot of money just to ask Johnny why he didn't clean his plate.. :(

[wallcrawlr]

$200,000 Advanced Traffic Analysis Center, North Dakota


WHAT IS THIS????

Have you been to NoDak....there is nothing but tractors and old people.

[Bloodclot]

$450,000 Trout Genome Mapping

Why the hell do we have to map the trout's genome???
Give me the 450 grand and my wife will pump it right
back into the economy.

[stopem]

Are you serious, all of that pork is in the budget?

[AuntB]

Now, I'm really depressed!

[Merdoug]

The Federal government blackmails the states into doing what they want by withholding the money taken from them by our taxes and doling it back out. That's how the Congress gets it's power: by who gets to control the money going back to the states. It's incideous but no American seems to mind.