Well over a year after Congress voluntarily imposed a ban on pork barrel spending, the number and cost of earmarks have dropped dramatically, a report said Tuesday -- but the snouts are not out of the trough altogether.
The "Pig Book," an annual report detailing the excesses of pork spending, has served up its usual heavy-duty mockery of congressional excesses. But this year the meat spit is smaller.
Here are so-called "Oinkers" of the year, listed in the "2010 Congressional Pig Book Summary," which was released on Wednesday by the nonpartisan group Citizens Against Government Waste.
A better recipe for disaster hardly seems possible: Allow politicians to take billions of dollars of your money and dole it out to other politicians, who then give it to other government administrators. All of whom ask you to trust that the funds will be spent wisely.
A watchdog group Wednesday accused Congress of wasting taxpayer dollars to please the people back home, despite the soaring deficit and mounting bills for hurricane damage and the war in Iraq.
Fortune: By The Numbersupdated: Mon Oct 03 2005 00:01:00
With Congress committing at least $62 billion to cover the damage from Hurricane Katrina--and continuing to fund the war in Iraq--the pressure to spend responsibly has rarely been greater. But the ...
Today is the day to send your taxes to Washington D.C., so it's natural to take a moment and think about where the money goes.
New York (CNN/Money) - Punxsutawney Phil teamed up with Republican congressman John Peterson on Capitol Hill Tuesday to defend a $100,000 grant considered pork by many for the way in which it was tucked inside a $388 billion spending bill.
CNNMoney: Where the money goesupdated: Thu Apr 15 2004 14:42:00
Today's the day for forking over your taxes to the U.S. government, if you haven't already.
Fortune: Shop Till You Dropupdated: Mon Jul 23 2001 00:01:00
It's a Washington cliche that lawmakers will spend every available penny. But over the next few months, Congress will spend more money, more quickly, than anytime in history. Why the rush? The budg...
J. Peter Grace, longtime chief executive of W.R. Grace Co., made headlines in 1984 when the commission he headed came up with 2,478 ways to reduce federal waste, to the tune of $424 billion over a ...
BLUE-RIBBON PANELS come and go like freshmen Congressmen in Washington, but J. Peter Grace, chairman of W.R. Grace and head of the 1982 Grace commission to study waste in government, believes that ...
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