2010 LIBERAL CONGRESS PIG PICKING

In the interest of space, the Gunny just posted the best of the best and only from, the majority party. Rest assured, there are idiot Republicans who failed to learn their lesson in 2006 and 2008. WE the people are tired of the "bringing home the bacon" mentality of the 11% approval rated Kongress.

If you've ever been to the South, you know what a pig picking is and that is just what this Kongress and its master, Barry Soetoro are doing to the economy.

$15,614,000 by Robert "KKK" Byrd (D-W.Va.) for 12 projects:

HOT EARMARK! $1,250,000 by Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) for research into the long-term environmental and economic impacts of the development of a coal liquefaction sector in China. Sen. Byrd has directed $2,070,150 to this project over the past three years. WE”RE PAYING FOR CHINA HERE?
HOT EARMARK! $200,000 for the Capitol Theater in Wheeling. Jerry Seinfeld is scheduled to appear at the theater on April 22 with tickets ranging from $48 to $78!
$39,700,000 by Robert "KKK" Byrd (D-W.Va.), for the Advanced Training Center. Sen. (Byrd earmarked $39,700,000 for the center in both fiscal years 2008 and 2009, bringing the three-year total to $119,100,000.)

$12,423,000 by Senate Agriculture Subcommittee Chairman for 11 projects:

$400,000 for the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (One of the institute’s projects is promoting “Slow Food.” As an answer to fast food, “Slow Food” has been, according to the institute’s website, “expanding over the past decade from dealing with issues of quality in cooking to include environmental and sustainable agriculture, social justice, and food sovereignty, among others.” How does one eat “SOCIAL JUSTICE?” WTF is "food sovereignty? Herb Kohl (D-WI)

$9,355,000 by House Agriculture Subcommittee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.):

$1,454,000 for mosquito trapping research (HINT: They call them Mosquito Magnets Rosa)
$401,000 for the Food Marketing Policy Center
$300,000 for the Massaro Community Farm (hippies living on our largesse)
$4,841,000 for wood utilization research (it burns, you can build with it, cedar smells good…)
$2,908,000 for shrimp aquaculture research (it is tasty, goes well with cocktail sauce, makes great bait)
$2,573,000 for potato research (are great as french fries)
$775,000 for the Institute for Food Science and Engineering (one of the research areas is called “Pickle Science and Technology)
$693,000 for beef improvement research (feed them better-corn works great, i.e., Kobe beef)
$349,000 for swine and other waste management
$175,000 for urban horticulture and marketing (Dick Durbin, Jesse Jackson, Jr) hoods growing goods!

$43,650,000 for 24 projects by Dianne MILCON Feinstein (D-Calif.), including:

$10,000,000 for Emissions Reduction Grants to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) and San Joaquin Air Pollution Control District (two of the AQMD’s projects featured on its website are the “2010 Lawn Mower Exchange Program” and “How to create an eco-friendly kitchen”) NOW THAT is important!
$1,878,000 for Army Corps of Engineers operation and maintenance at Crescent City Harbor
$1,406,000 for Army Corps of Engineers operation and maintenance at Marina del Rey
$969,000 for shoreline erosion control development and demonstration
$90,000 for a breakwater study of Long Beach
$90,000 for an Army Corps of Engineers general investigation of Redwood City Harbor.
(Most of this should be STATE FUNDED!)

$28,500,000 for 21 projects by Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), including

$3,000,000 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for Chesapeake Bay oyster restoration; $1,000,000 for at-risk youth mentoring programs at the Cal Ripken Senior Foundation
$500,000 for the Kennedy Krieger Institute Juvenile Delinquency Prevention program
$500,000 for Episcopal Community Services of Maryland for the Jericho Workforce Development Initiative for ex-offenders (WHY ARE WE PAYING FOR THIS?)
$250,000 for the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center.

$7,965,000 for eight projects by House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.), including:

$2,265,000 for the Ice Age National Scenic Trail ($2,000,000 for land acquisition and $265,000 for construction)

$17,692,000 for 14 projects by Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), including:

$500,000 for a regional sediment management demonstration program in southeast Oahu
$100,000 for a rainfall analysis in Hawaii. (HINT: It rains a lot there Mazie)

$32,150,000 for 17 projects by Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), including:

$2,250,000 for coral research at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawaii
$1,000,000 for the Hawaii Marine Fund at the Hawaii Community Foundation
$1,000,000 for the Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative at the University of Hawaii
$400,000 for Hawaii fisheries development at the Oceanic Institute.
Don't they charge TUITION?

$17,976,000 for 33 projects by Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.), including

$500,000 for the West Liberty Emerging Minority Business Leaders program
$406,000 for an anti-recidivism prisoner education program at Glenville State College
$300,000 for the Great Science Online program at Wheeling Jesuit University.

$17,895,000 for 41 projects by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), including:

$250,000 for turtle protection funding (How did they EVER LIVE without human protection?)

THE BEST OF THE BEST

$26,493,000 for 85 projects Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), including:

$100,000 for internet-based foreign language programs at Carnegie Mellon University (which has an endowment of $1,061,625,145) by Arlen S.P.E.C.T.R.E!

$2,922,000 for the West Freight access project (which the Federal Railroad Administration admits is a “non-competitive grant”) by Patty Murray (D-WA)

$2,000,000 for the city of Superior for expansion and improvement of a shipyard repair facility on the Great Lakes. (a PRIVATE industry facility) by David Obey (D-WI)

$1,000,000 by John Tester (D-Mont.), Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) for wind turbine development.

$300,000 for two projects for youth soccer gang prevention initiatives -Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.)

$200,000 by Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Reps. Mike Michaud (D-Maine) and Chellie Pingree (D-
Maine) for lobster research at the Maine Department of Marine Resources. (HEY RINO SNOWE, THEY TASTE GOOD in butter!)

$200,000 by Senate CJS Appropriations Subcommittee member Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) to the Camden City Municipal Government for a Camden Police Department Mobile Communications Center. May 6, 2009, USA Today reported that the Camden Police Department was not eligible for stimulus COPS money because the department already had $565,000 in existing grant violations that the city was unable to repay.

$500,000 by Reps. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), Jane Harman (D-Calif.), Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), and Diane Watson (D-Calif.) for street lighting fixtures.

HOT EARMARK! $4,283,375 for nine projects for financial literacy/education programs by Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), John Olver (D-Mass.), and Steven Rothman (D-N.J.), including:

$3,150,000 for a financial education and pre-home ownership counseling demonstration project
$305,875 for a national program to improve financial literacy for the Girl Scouts of the USA
$250,000 for financial and technical assistance for the Western Massachusetts Enterprise Fund
$100,000 for employment and financial counseling and assistance for Project Ezrah Needs, Inc.

$200,000 by Marion Berry (D-Ark.) for the Arkansas Commercial Driver Training Institute at Arkansas State University-Newport. (J.B. Hunt had sales of $3.8 billion in 2008.) Surely THEY can pay to train THEIR drivers.

$800,000 by House appropriator Ed Pastor (D-Ariz.) to Global Solar Energy for the portable solar charging rechargeable battery system. Global Solar Energy is a private sector firm.

$8,045,000 for seven projects by Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), including:
$4,000,000 for the Puget Sound Ecosystem Research Initiative (econazis)
$180,000 for Schooner Adventuress restoration. (Approximately 3,000 youth and adults board her each year to learn her history, Puget Sound’s and the ways we can work together to protect the environment in which she sails.)

FUN WITH EARMARKS!

A.  $1,000,000 by Senate appropriator Mary Landrieu (D-La.) for the Sewall-Belmont House in Washington, D.C., which holds private events, offers catering, and is visited by tourists who are encouraged to leave donations.
B.  $150,000 by House appropriator Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) for restoration of the Sterling Opera House.
C.  $150,000 by House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee member Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) for restoration of Cottrill’s Opera House.
D.  Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), including: $7,287,000 for the Iowa Department of Education to continue the Harkin Grant program ($32,633,000 has been earmarked for this program since 2005.) Remember: “I happen to be a supporter of earmarks, unabashedly. But I don’t call them earmarks. It is ‘Congressional directed spending.’” November 25, 2006 New York Times article
E.  $550,000 for curriculum development and equipment purchasing at Caldwell College; $500,000 for purchasing equipment and curriculum development at Fairleigh Dickinson University (which has an endowment of $23,150,084) Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
F.  $800,000 by Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) for music education programs at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. Since 2001, over $4,816,000 has been directed to Jazz at Lincoln Center, which had a fund balance of $195,763,243 as of June 30, 2008.
G.  $300,000 by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) for music education programs at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Tickets range from $34 to $220. Carnegie Hall had $401,662,000 in total assets as of June 30, 2009.
H.  $200,000 by Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) for assessments and educational programming at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. The average cost of a ticket to the Bishop Museum is $16.45. The Bishop Museum had a fund balance of $71,302,643 as of June 30, 2008.
I.  $150,000 by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) for exhibits and interactive displays at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation in Buffalo. The foundation had a fund balance of $1,222,394 as of September 30, 2008.
J.  $11,270,000 for the East-West Center in Hawaii. In a moment of rare candor, Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) admitted in 2007, that it came into existence without congressional hearings and over State Department opposition. The East-West Center is similar to the North-South Center, which stopped receiving federal funding in 2001.
K.  $400,000 by House appropriator Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) for restoration and renovation of the historic Ritz Theater in Newburgh, N.Y.
L.  $400,000 by Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) for construction and renovation for safety improvements at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. They had net assets worth $49,147,172 with an operating budget of $16.9 million.
M.  $350,000 by House appropriator Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) and Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) for renovation of the Uptown Theater in Philadelphia.
N.  $200,000 by Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) for the expansion of the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York. The museum has a fund balance of $6.9 million at the end of 2008.
O.  $200,000 by Senate THUD Appropriations Subcommittee member Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) and Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) for design and construction of a small business incubator and multipurpose center in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Q.  $194,800 by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) for completion of the historic restoration project at the Historic Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. According to the Old Slater’s Mill Association 2008 IRS Form 990, it has net assets of $2,573,254.
R.  $150,000 by House appropriator Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) for renovation and build out of the Pregones Theater in the Bronx. It costs attendees $22 for regular admission.
S. $1,700,000 for the Water Research Foundation (at the end of 2007, it had a fund balance of $17 million)-THANK YOU Dingy Reid (D-NV).

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