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The CAGW-published Congressional Pig Book Summary (Pig Book) is an annual list of such projects and their sponsors. The 2008 Pig Book identified 10,610 projects in that year's congressional appropriations bills that constitute the discretionary portion of the federal budget for fiscal 2008, costing taxpayers $17.2 billion. [2]
There are 274 earmarks included in the 2020 Pig Book, down from last year, but at a higher, record-setting cost.
In December 2015, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) claimed in their 2016 Congressional Pig Book, [25] that all the FY2016 earmarks were contained in the December 2016 omnibus 2000-page Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 which authorized $1.15 trillion in appropriations. [26]
If the DOGE is going to be something more than a meme-ified version of Tom Coburn's Congressional Pig Book, it will have to break through the political opposition that has stymied countless other ...
Michael Ray Turner (born January 11, 1960) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Ohio's 10th congressional district since 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Washington continues to play fast and loose with America's checkbook as they blow through billions on superfluous projects, a fiscal watchdog group claims.
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The Jungle is a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. [1] In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, which published the novel in serial form in 1905.