Earmarks for Everyone: 2009 Pig Books List
April 30th, 2009 | by BGuzzardi |
This is an outstanding, if somewhat depressing, resource listing all earmarks for all House members and Senators for fiscal 2009.
“The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW’s annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2009 Pig Book identified 10,160 projects at a cost of $19.6 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2009. A “pork” project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures. To qualify as pork, a project must meet one of seven criteria that were developed in 1991 by CAGW and the Congressional Porkbusters Coalition.
Complete Pork Database: Search all 10,160 projects by keyword, member, state, party or appropriations bill.
Tell Congress: Sign the Earmark Reform Pledge!”