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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]
As Congress begins the process of passing a new version of the farm bill this week — a twice a decade process — House Republicans are hoping to include a provision that prevents states such as ...
This is a bibliography of U.S. congressional memoirs by former and current U.S. representatives. [1] [2] The United States House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate. The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — It took less than a day for the Jan. 6 report to go from public unveiling to the bestseller list on Amazon.com. By late Friday, three editions of the Congressional probe of the ...
Pigasus, also known as Pigasus the Immortal and Pigasus J. Pig, was a 145-pound (66 kg) domestic pig that was nominated for President of the United States as a theatrical gesture by the Youth International Party on August 23, 1968, just before the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Following reporting by Yahoo News, the Department of Homeland Security told Congress this week that it will provide it with an inspector general report on Operation Whistle Pig.