Today’s edition identifies at least $333 million in wasteful Washington spending. -$300 million stimulus program to promote energy efficiency may not be energy efficient after all, audit finds -Quid Pro Pork: Department of Justice investigates link between the exchange of
Free golf carts available from federal stimulus program Annual U.S. federal budget deficit reaches an all time high of $1.42 trillion in 2009; Government spending jumped to more than $3.5 trillion, increasing over 18% in one year The Pentagon pays
$300,000 in federal stimulus money pays to map radioactive rabbit turds from a helicopter $445 million worth of congressional earmarks compromise the priorities of the Energy Department $2.6 billion diverted from guns and ammunition for troops to pay for politicians’
Taxpayers foot the bill for office items lost or stolen by members of Congress Half-a-million dollar NSF stimulus grant pays to search for alternatives to Facebook Stimulus funds pay to create an online database of bugs Stimulus funds to pay
Trendiness of baby names being studied by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation Federal government spends millions of dollars on a floating canal museum, a Corvette museum, the National Packard Museum, and other museums of
Senator Byrd earmarks $5 million in Defense funds for a company that no longer exists House committee earmarks $103 million of Defense funds to contractors who employ the congressmen’s former staffers-turned-lobbyists National Science Foundation studies the bug splatter on the
From the great folks at Sen. Tom Coburn’s office: Political scientists lobbying Congress for federal subsidies The National Science Foundation spends about $8 million annually to support political science research Research sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the U.S.
Money intended for soldiers fighting war is instead being spent on senators’ home-state pet projects Defense spending bill contains an earmark that has nothing to do with national defense, $20 million for an institute honoring late Senator Ted Kennedy Maryland
Keep on Truckin’: Grateful Dead archive receives $615,175 federal grant; “The ultimate goal… is that everyone will have a Grateful Dead experience” Renovation project at the Bill Clinton presidential center will receive $2.5 million of federal stimulus funds North Carolina
Today’s Pork Report from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) identies at least $315 million in wasteful Washington spending: Congress boosts its own budget by $250 million; Increase will pay to hire consultants, hold receptions, and send postcards to voters Only 16%
Today’s edition of Sen. Coburn’s Pork Report identifies at least $108.4 million in wasteful Washington Spending. Despite being in good condition, Hollywood’s Sunset Strip will get a $7 million face lift with federal stimulus funds Employee misconduct investigations, often involving
From the office of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). Today’s edition identifies at least $11 million in wasteful Washington spending: Many Republican Senators complain about Obama spending policies, then vote for the spending increases Nearly $10 billion in stimulus aid to
