2008-07-17 22:08:14 -
www.cagw.org - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) Leslie K. Paige, 202-467-5334 or Alexa Moutevelis, 202-467-5318 Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today released its preliminary analysis of the Senate version of the Fiscal 2009 Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) Appropriations Act. There are 574 projects for a total of $436.5 million in this year's Senate bill.
The top five porkers are Senate CJS Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) with $72.9 million; Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) with $52.4 million; Senate CJS Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) with $48.7 million; Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) with $41.2 million and Senate appropriator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) with $32.1 million.
The following are examples that pork-loving members added to the bill:
-- $24.6 million for two projects by Senate CJS Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), Sens. Jim Cardin (D-Md.), Jim Webb (D-Va.), and Mark Warner (R-Va.), to aid watermen in the Chesapeake Bay with new work opportunities, and to restore oyster habitat and plant disease free oysters in scientifically selected sites throughout the Chesapeake Bay;
-- $4.9 million for nine projects for the Marshall Space and Flight Center in Huntsville, by Senate CJS Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-Ala.);
-- $750,000 by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for the University of Louisville to research factors that hinder the wound healing process;
-- $450,000 by Senator David Vitter (R-La.) to eliminate public corruption and reduce white collar crime;
-- $400,000 by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for copper wire theft prevention in Las Vegas; and,
-- $100,000 for the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation by Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) to provide economic relief to Maine lobstermen.
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