October 20, 2005

Pork Projects by Year

From Chris Edwards' new book, Downsizing the Federal Government (which cited CAGW): bq. Number of Pork Projects in Federal Spending Bills bq. 2005 - 13,997 2004 - 10,656 2003 - 9,362 2002 - 8,341 2001 - 6,333 2000 - 4,326 1999 - 2,838 1998 - 2100 1997 - 1,596 1996 - 958 1995 - 1439 Using 2005 numbers, by voting down the "Bridges" amendment, the Senate let the country know that it was unwilling to defund 2 out of 13,997 pork projects today. That's 0.0142887762 percent.

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