Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Citizens Against Government Waste
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 146685314X
The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Publisher :
Page : 1822 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Publisher :
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : John F. Sargent
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1437931251
Contents: (1) Overview; (2) Federal R&D Funding Perspectives: Agency Perspective; Character of Work, Facilities, and Equipment Perspective; Combined Perspective; (3) Multiagency R&D Initiatives Perspective: Multiagency R&D Initiatives; National Nanotechnology Initiative; Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program; U.S. Global Change Research Program; (4) DoD; (5) DHS; (6) NIH; (7) DoE; (8) NSF; (9) Dept. of Commerce: NIST, NOAA; (10) NASA; (11) USDA; (12) Dept. of the Interior; (13) EPA; and (14) DoT. Charts and tables.
