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  • 2010 Pig Book Summary (snapshot of each appropriations bill and details the juiciest projects)

    12/31/2010 2:06:43 PM PST · by STARWISE · 18 replies
    The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW's annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2010 Pig Book identified 9,129 projects at a cost of $16.5 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2010. A "pork" project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures. To qualify as pork, a project must meet one of seven criteria that were developed in 1991 by CAGW and the Congressional Porkbusters Coalition. The 2010 Congressional Pig Book Summary gives a snapshot of each appropriations bill and details...