Pork Report October 29,2009: National Science Foundation Edition

National Science Foundation studies gossip and workplace politics in elementary school

$1.47 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a 3-D virtual recreation of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair

National Science Foundation funds self-help for Members of Congress

$1.57 million stimulus grant to search for fossils… in Argentina

Thirty companies ranked among the most egregious offenders of state and federal laws awarded more than $1.2 billion in federal stimulus contracts

Taxpayers paid $24,000 per car under federal Cash for Clunkers program

Group accuses Senate committee staff of unfairly applying earmark procedures by refusing to sponsor a project in the home state of the committee’s chairman while directing federal dollars to an institute in another state for his political friends

Homeland Security Department awarding many research projects without competition or peer review

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