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Citizens Against Government Waste has opened online voting for its 2009 “Porker of the Year” award. The six finalists include such infamous lawmakers (or, more appropriately, earmark-makers) as Barney Frank…
Perhaps inspired by the ruckuses at various townhalls over the health care issue, “an alliance of 18 national groups and scores of local organizations” have put together a series of…
Citizens Against Government Waste released its 2009 Pig Book at 10 a.m. Overall, the report found 10,160 pork barrel projects at a cost of $19.6 billion in the 12 Appropriations…
Citizens Against Government Waste has named Congressman Barney Frank, D-Mass., its Porker of the Month, “a dubious honor given to lawmakers, government officials, and political candidates who have shown a…
Matt Miller, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, argues that it is time for the “nationalization of school operating costs.” After all, we have “nationalized the banking,…
Today’s Carolina Journal Online exclusive features David Bass’ report about the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste honoring Sen. Richard Burr and Rep. Sue Myrick. John Hood’s Daily Journal describes…
Don Surber says New Media has clout that Old Media never did. He bases that on the progress made recently on eliminating porked-up earmarks in Congress: Why do I credit…
Citizens Against Government Waste’s Porker of the Month for August is none other than Rep. Charles Taylor, R-N.C.
Here’s a list. The big winner is Asheville with $1.25 million for Mission Hospitals. This is from a Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations measure that contains 1,867 earmarks worth…
Following Paul Chesser‘s coverage of the Sparta Teapot Museum‘s, $400,000 in pork from last year’s state budge and $500,000 in federal funding, the Citizens Against Government Waste awarded the museum…
The Citizens Against Government Waste 2006 Pigbook of federal pork projects of course includes the infamous Teapot Museum in Sparta. It landed $500,000 from DC to go along with the…
During the budget negotiations this summer, John Hood surprised some folks – including the the State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC) when he wrote that state employees had been…