Posted by: SCF | July 11, 2008

Today’s pork report

  • 69% of Americans say the government can cut large amounts of wasteful spending without harming important programs; Support for cutting government is overwhelming across the partisan spectrum more
  • $694,000 earmarked by Congress for a Kentucky education center that doesn’t exist; The money was used for other purposes, including out-of-state travel and lodging more
  • “Green” changes to the House of Representatives’ food service has cut profits in half more
  • Senate Majority Leader threatens to bring up omnibus spending authorization bill before the end of July more
  • Only 21% of Americans support Senate’s $300 billion mortgage bail out proposal; The bill is “very attractive to legislators in an election year,” but the Congressional Budget Office found it would do little to ease the housing crisis more
  • National Park Service sponsors an afternoon of poetry reading on the lawn of the Longfellow House more
  • National Park Service sponsors a summit to raise awareness of environmental issues within the performing arts community more
  • Looking to avoid maintenance costs, Mississippi town attempting to transfer ownership of local visitors center to the National Park Service more
  • National Science Foundation pays for public opinion poll to determine if Floridians are convinced that global warming is happening and if the government should deal with climate change more

Posted in Wasteful Spending | Tags: , , , ,

« Today’s pork report
Democrats + Financial Industry = Campaign Cash, Gifts, and Taxpayer Bailouts »

Responses

[...] - bookmarked by 1 members originally found by amha on July 18, 2008 Today’s pork report http://senateconservatives.com/2008/07/11/todays-pork-report-10/ - bookmarked by 4 members [...]

By: Bookmarks about Pork on August 2, 2008
at 6:00 am

Leave a response






Your response:

Categories