Citizens Against Government Waste came out with their annual “Pig Book 2008 Edition”.
While the number of earmark projects requests decreased by 12 percent last year from 11,610 to 10,160, the amount of money going to the projects increased by more than $2 billion to 19.6 billion for FY 2009.
“Despite repeated claims by members of Congress that earmarks have been reduced, the Pig Book belies that claim,” said CAGW President Tom Schatz, who noted that this year’s spending bill also included 221 anonymous earmarks amounting to $7.8 billion of the spending that no lawmakers took credit for. More [here].
Of the pork brought home to Indiana, it comprised of 175 projects for a total of $158,296,422. Click here to see the results.
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