August 2, 2005

Highways Made of Pork

There's an estimated 6371 pork projects in the highway bill recently passed by Congress. Here's a list of projects inserted into previous highway bills. See a disturbing trend?

Year  Projects 
1956  2 
1982  10 
1987  152 
1991  538 
1998  1850 
2005  6371 
At this rate, they'll eventually have to rename these as Pork Bills where highway projects are subjectively inserted, not the other way around. Every member of the U.S. House received pork for their respective districts except one -- Jeff Flake of Arizona's 6th District.

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