Report: Pork spending still going hog wild (more Jeff Sessions Hypocracy)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Alabama Sports Hall of Fame among recipients

Thursday, April 07, 2005
By SEAN REILLY
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON -- After once ridiculing Democrats for so-called pork-barrel spending, Republicans have outdone them since taking control of Congress a decade ago, one GOP lawmaker lamented Wednesday as a new report showed that the volume of such projects has soared to a new high.

"We came into office and we made it far worse," said U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona. Flake spoke at a news conference marking the release of the 2005 "Pig Book," the latest rundown of pork spending by Citizens Against Government Waste, a Washington, D.C., advocacy group.

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For this fiscal year, Congress stuffed the budget with $27.3 billion in pork, the report continues, a 19 percent jump over 2004. The total number of projects was up 31 percent during the same time to 13,997.

Among the projects singled out for special notice: $100,000 for the Tiger Woods Foundation, $6.3 million for wood utilization research and a $25,000 appropriation for a Nevada school system to develop a curriculum for teaching mariachi music. The report also raps $1.4 million in federal spending for various "halls of fame" around the country, including the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame in Wisconsin and the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in Birmingham.

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http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1112865421176050.xml

Sessions is the poster child for a suck-up Repug wannabe. If Bushco had a dead baby BBQ on the White House lawn, he'd bring the babies and say that how geat the idea was.

[ixion]

1. this should be national news...but oh, I forgot... Michael Jackson's

sexual habits are far more important. :eyes:

[MuseRider]

2. Sessions

ICK! Wasn't he the one on the Daily Show last night I think. I was doing something else and was only listening but almost dropped something when I heard him say something about "liberrys".

I think I remember we got some money in Kansas for some sort of Hall of Fame. It was last year I think but I simply can't remember what it was for but I do remember thinking :wtf:?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. Yeah, he was on there....

Living in AL, I pay more attention than I should to this dickless wonder. After one session of Session kissing Rummy's ass during some hearings, I emailed him asking if he 'dropped trou' for Rummy after the hearings. He never answered.

The man is a dangerous dolt.

[Hieronymus]

4. Ick, is right.

I laugh at his little fat rouged cheeks.
:eyes:

[quaoar]

5. Not really fair to single out Jeff Sessions

I mean, he's a sanctimonious POS, but he's an amateur compared to some people in Congress when it comes to pork.

Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska rolled up more than $600 million in pork barrel spending.

You can check out the whole list here:

http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2005

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. Heh. I claim special access here... He's an embarrassment to all

Alabamians. (But yes, he comes off as a piker compared to Stephens)