Pork Report December 1, 2009: Dollars For Donuts Edition

The Senate earmarks $500,000 for itself; Money will be spent to promote Senators’ appearances

House of Representative’s expense reports now online

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent $2,993 in taxpayer money on flowers in just a few months and House Majority Whip James Clyburn spent hundreds of dollars on donuts

Congress steers millions of taxpayer dollars to campaign donors’ pet projects including an earmark for “mammal awareness”

The Justice Department has instructed federal agencies to honor contracts with ACORN despite ban on funding passed by Congress and signed by the President

Federal Highway Administration paying to turn an old pool house into a museum relating to the history of transportation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Medicare had paid as much as $92 million for services or equipment “prescribed” by dead doctors

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