February 15, 2004Is Annual Congressional Porkfest Justified?
We tried "guns and butter"
back in the Vietnam days with disastrous results.
Now many Congress members want to try it again.
Following is the pending $373 billion Omnibus Appropriations Bill
with some of the butter. Make believe you are a duly elected Representative about to vote.
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Pork Project |
$725,000 -- |
Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia. |
$200,000 |
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland,
Oh. |
$1,800,000 |
2003 Women’s World Cup
Tournament |
$6,000,000 |
Police Athletic League. |
$250,000 |
Call Me Mister program, Clemson
University |
$500,000 |
New England Amer-I-Can Program. |
$150,000 |
Rock School, Philadelphia, Pa. |
$16,000 |
Natl, Distance Running Hall of
Fame, Utica, N.Y. |
$225,000 |
Hawaii statehood celebration. |
$325,000 |
Swimming pool, Salinas, Calif. |
$100,000 |
Natl. History Day in Iowa. |
$175,000 |
Therapeutic Horsemanship for
Youth, Gettysburg, Pa. |
$315,000 |
Formosan subterranean termite
research. |
$100,000 |
Public service recognition week |
$50,000 |
Fr. Maloney’s Boy’s
Haven, Louisville, Ky. |
$75,000 |
Vintage Radio & Jazz Museum,
E. Stroudsburg University. |
$100,000 |
Kids program, Fender Museum of
the Arts, Corona, Calif. |
$100,000 |
Historic Coca-Cola building restoration,
Macon, Ga. |
$100,000 |
Construction of inter-generational
daycare center, San Fernando, Calif. |
$372,000 |
B&O Railroad Museum restoration,
Baltimore, Md. |
$75,000 |
Thelonious Monk Institute of
Jazz, Washington, D.C. |
$225,000 |
Blue-Gray Civil War Theme Park,
Ky. |
$75,000 |
North Pole Transit System JARC
Program, Alaska. |
$250,000 |
Feasibility study for Suffolk
(Va.) workforce development. |
$350,000 |
Folk cultural center, Pinellas
County, Fl. |
$400,000 |
Speed Art Museum, Louisville,
Ky. |
$90,000 |
Olive fruit fly research. |
$150,000 |
Traffic light, Briarcliff School
District, N.Y. |
$100,000 |
People for People, Inc., Philadelphia,
Pa. |
$100,000 |
Amphitheater, North Star Productions,
Bracken County, Ky. |
$2,000,000 |
First Tee program. |
$150,000 |
Youth Baseball complex , Lancaster,
Calif. |
$100,000 |
Mosby Museum Foundation, Warrenton,
Va. |
$180,000 |
Seafood waste research, Fairbanks,
Alaska. |
$400,000 |
Public Schools, Walla Walla,
Wash. |
$900,000 |
Kincaid Park Trail, Alaska |
$20,000 |
Southern Star Development Corp.,
Louisville, Ky. |
$85,000 |
Transportation Plan, Lewisburg,
W.V. |
$100,000 |
Norman Hall project, University
of Florida. |
$225,000 |
Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins,
Ga. |
$250,000 |
Frey Institute of Politics, University
Central Florida. |
$270,000 |
Sustainable olive production. |
$5,000,000 |
Kennedy Center and Potomac River
bike path. |
$100,000 |
National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg,
Pa. |
$200,000 |
Cedar glades research. |
$250,000 |
Studio For Arts, Pocahontas,
Ark. |
$2,000,000 |
Intermodal Transload Facility,
Quincy, Wash. |
$110,000 |
Dental clinic, Bassfield, Miss. |
$220,000 |
New Mexico Retail Assn., Albuquerque. |
$400,000 |
Music History Museum, Davenport,
Iowa. |
$3,000,000 |
US 12 widening, Walla Walla,
Wash. |
$25,000 |
Haley House Museum, Henning,
Tenn. |
$225,000 |
Rialto Square Theater, Joliet,
Ill. |
$5,000,000 |
Project SOCRATES. |
$90,000 |
Community Arts Assn., Madison,
Ohio. |
$150,000 |
Farmers’ Market renovation,
Dallas Texas. |
$200,000 |
Music after school program. |
$200,000 |
Traffic Analysis Center, N.D. |
$250,000 |
Nevada oral history. |
$400,000 |
American Revolution Center,
Wayne, Pa. |
$1,000,000 |
Hal Rogers Parkway, Ky. |
$1,000,000 |
Ship Creek improvements, Alaska. |
$2,000,000 |
I-SAFE America. |
$50,000 |
National Canal Museum, Easton,
Pa. |
$100,000 |
America and Sea Museum, Mystic
Seaport, Conn. |
$200,000 |
First National Bank renovation,
Greenfield, Mass. |
$250,000 |
Martha’s Village and Kitchen,
Indio, Calif. |
$270,000 |
Potato storage. |
$1,000,000 |
Community Hospital, Brevard,
N. C. |
$6,000,000 |
Treasure Island Bridge |
$80,000 |
Bike Trail, Hot Springs, Ark. |
$90,000 |
Karnal bunt research, Manhattan,
Kan. |
$175,000 |
Art Museum, Wichita, Kan. |
$210,000 |
Winston Link Museum, Roanoke,
Va. |
$250,000 |
Taylor Memorial Home, Louisville,
Ky., |
$250,000 |
Radio Broadcast Museum, Chicago,
Ill. |
$500,000 |
Traffic Signal Replacements,
New Rochelle, N.Y. |
$2,000,000 |
Parents Anonymous |
$100,000 |
"Servicing Our Youth" |
$275,000 |
Refurbish Coach Ford Center,
Powder Springs, Ga. |
$150,000 |
Piper’s Opera House, Inc.,
Virginia City, Nev. |
$270,000 |
U.S. Vegetable Lab. |
$1,250,000 |
US-2, Bridge, Bonner County,
Idaho. |
$25,000 |
Capitol Area Boy Scouts. |
$113,000 |
Healing Place, Louisville, Ky. |
$500,000 |
Jim Thorp Bridge renovation,
Pa. |
$600,000 |
Web Wise Kids. |
$800,000 |
Bus purchase, Mammoth Lakes, Calif. |
$100,000 |
Renovation of Jamestown (Ohio)
Opera House. |
$400,000 |
Ed Roberts Campus transit center,
Calif. |
$750,000 |
Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing & Able
program. |
$160,000 |
Bus purchase, Grapevine, Texas. |
$500,000 |
Higher Education Center, Southwest
Texas University. |
$1,400,000 |
Translational Genomics Research
Institute, Phoenix, Ariz. |
$25,000 |
Citizens Observer Patrol, Transylvania
County, N.C. |
$200,000 |
Community Culture Center, West
Bloomfield, Mich. |
$300,000 |
Milwaukee Summer Stars. |
$450,000 |
Johnny Appleseed Center, Ashland,
Ohio |
$750,000 |
Transportation systems, Wichita,
Kansas, Transit Authority. |
$1,500,000 |
Operation Street Sweeper. |
$125,000 |
New route planning over Cape
Fear River, N.C. |
$300,000 |
Omnitrans Para-transit Vehicles,
Calif. |
$500,000 |
Bike path, St. Petersburg, Fla. |
$1,000,000 |
WestStart vehicular flywheel
project, Washington. |
$15,000 |
Pines of Peace, Inc., Ontario,
N.Y. |
$75,000 |
U.S. Dream Academy, Columbia,
Md. |
$200,000 |
Replace bus, Oneont, N.Y. |
$450,000 |
Trout genome mapping. |
$500,000 |
LOVE Social Services, Fairbanks,
Alaska |
$750,000 |
Broken Bow rail spur, Okla. |
$2,000,000 |
Tools for Tolerance program,
Calif. |
$150,000 |
National Restaurant Assn. educational
foundation. |
$1,000,000 |
DelTrac statewide integration,
Del. |
Your tax dollars at work.
Lindsey Williams is a Sun columnist who can be reached at linwms@lindseywilliams.org
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