2009 Omnibus Pork Projects and their Sponsors

2009 Omnibus Pork Projects and their Sponsors

The Heritage Foundation has released a partial list of the “pork” projects housed in the 2009 Omnibus Bill.  Are there any from your home town or state?

Sadly, there is from mine.  I first heard of it watching John McCain’s Top Ten Lists on Twitter.com.  The pork is for the “Totally Teens Zone” in Albany, Georgia, the next largest city from me.  I’m well familiar with the “organization” and I use the term loosely.  It’s a group of teens that party under the guise of the Albany Parks and Recreation Center.  There are no jobs here, no guidance for teens here, no nothing except a “party zone”.  This pork was sponsored by both Georgia Senators Chambliss and Bishop – one republican and one democrat.  I’ll be a bit occupied for the next few days screaming from the rooftops against this ignorance.

Below is the list from Heritage.  See if the shoe fits your neck of the woods as well.  And also, look at all the multi-million dollar projects that have no significant influence or remedy to our financial situation this year.  Sound off as you please.

A Sample of the 9,287 Omnnibus Bill Earmarks

Amount 
 Recipient/Purpose Congressional Sponsor
$1,049,000  
 Mormon Crickets, Utah   Bennett
$475,000  
 Sidewalk Construction in Ashland & Cherryland, CA   Lee
$225,000  
 Everybody Wins!   LaHood
$200,000  
 Tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, CA Berman
$190,000  
 Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY Cubin
$237,500  
 Theater renovation, Merced, CA   Cardoza
$75,000  
 Totally Teen Zone, Albany, GA Bishop, Chambliss  
$500,000  
 National History Day Several Lawmakers
$570,000  
 Ronald Reagan Parkway, Boone County, IN   Buyer
$100,000  
 Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation   Allen, Snowe, Collins  
$332,500  
 Build a school sidewalk, Franklin, TX   Edwards (TX)
$381,000  
 George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Slaughter, Schumer  
$380,600  
 Versailles Borough Stray Gas Mitigation   Doyle (PA)
$75,000  
 Wayne Gomes Youth Baseball Diversity Foundation   Scott
$381,000  
 Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY Nadler
$5,813,000  
 Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate, Boston, MA Kerry, Byrd, Harkin, Durbin, Mikulski, Dodd  
$950,000  
 Bus and Bus Facilities, Lawrence, KS   Moore, Roberts
$300,000  
 Montana World Trade Center   Rehberg
$2,673,000  
 Wood Education and Resource Center   President, Byrd
$380,000  
 Lemon Street Reconstruction and Enhancements, FL   Bilirakis
$17,500,000  
 FDR Presidential Library renovation Gillibrand, Reid, Schumer  
$2,000,000  
 LBJ Presidential Library   Hutchison  
$22,000,000  
 JFK Presidential Library   Markey, Lynch, Kerry  
$300,000  
 GoGirlGo! Boston, MA   Capuano, Kennedy, Kerry  
$285,000  
 Kansas Farm Bureau, Manhattan, KS   Brownback  
$6,838,000  
 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Several Lawmakers
$427,500  
 Bicycle/Pedestrian Pathways, Provo, UT   Cannon, Hatch
$950,000  
 World Trade Center of St. Louis, MO   Bond
$725,000  
 Illinois Height Modernization   Johnson (IL), LaHood
$298,257  
 Small business program, Florida Department of Citrus   Boyd, Putnam, Martinez  
$237,500  
 Sidewalk Construction, Vienna, VA   Davis (VA)
$190,000  
 Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI Inouye  
$100,000  
 Police Athletic League of Buffalo, Inc   Slaughter
$206,000  
 Wool Research Conaway, Rodriguez (TX)
$475,000  
 5th & Market St. Transportation Improvements, PA   Specter  
$494,000  
 Business incubator, Arkansas State University   Berry, Lincoln, Pryor  
$400,000  
 Salisbury House, Des Moines, IA  Harkin, Grassley, Boswell
$138,000  
 John Nance Garner Museum, Austin, TX Rodriguez (TX)
$190,000  
 Sidewalk Improvements, Williamstown, VT   Leahy, Sanders
$870,000  
 Red Wolf Breeding Facility Relocation   Shuler
$190,000  
 George C. Wallace Community College-Dothan, AL Everett
$142,500  
 Pregones Theater, Bronx, NY   Serrano
$6,623,000  
 Formosan Subterranean Termites Research Landrieu, Vitter, Alexander
$1,903,000  
 Landfill Gas Utilization Plant in NY Schumer  
$475,000  
 Replacement of Bus Fleet, Topeka, KS   Boyda
$285,000  
 Widening of County Road 222, Cullman, AL   Aderholt
$2,192,000  
 Center for Grape Genetics, Geneva, NY   Schumer, Walsh, Hinchey, Arcuri 
$1,791,000  
 Swine Odor and Manure Management Research, Ames, IA   Harkin
$950,000  
 Bossier Parish Congestion Relief Plan, LA   Landrieu, Vitter
$712,500  
 Replacement Buses, Detroit, MI   Conyers, Levin, Stabenow
$4,545,000  
 Wood Utilization Research Several Lawmakers
$200,000  
 Oil Region Alliance   Peterson (PA)
$2,565,000  
 Renovate the Cox Building, Maysville, KY   McConnell, Davis (KY) 
$400,000  
 Minnesota Teen Challenge   Ramstad, Coleman  
$190,000  
 Berkshire Theater Festival, Stockbridge, MA   Kennedy, Kerry
$4,750,000  
 Shiloh Road, MT   Baucus, Tester
$143,000  
 American Ballet Theatre, New York, NY Maloney, Schumer  
$100,000  
 Ready, Willing & Able, Philadelphia, PA Brady (PA) 
$250,000  
 Lederer Theater, Providence, RI Reed
$1,187,500  
 Wolf Trap Performing Arts Multi-Use Trail, Fairfax, VA   Moran
$3,800,000  
 Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy, MI   Levin
$294,500  
 Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center, East St. Louis, IL   Durbin  
$143,000  
 Historic Jazz Foundation, Inc., Kansas City, MO Cleaver, Emanuel
$1,000,000  
 Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation   Ruppersberger, Mikulski, Shelby  
$237,500  
 Street Rehabilitation, Doral, FL   Diaz-Balart (Lincoln)
$49,134  
 Bronx Council on the Arts Serrano
$475,000  
 Pedestrian Bridges, Iowa City, IA   Loebsack
$167,000  
 Autry National Center for the American West, Los Angeles, CA Schiff, McKeon, Bono, Boxer  
$315,000  
 Music education, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY Maloney, Schumer  
$122,821  
 Greater Toledo Arts Commission Kaptur
$950,000  
 55th Street East Grade Separation, Minot, ND   Dorgan, Conrad
$951,500  
 Energy Efficiency Street Lighting, Detroit, MI Kilpatrick, Levin, Stabenow  
$143,000  
 Stockbridge-Munsee Museum, Bowler, WI Kagen
$475,000  
 Italian American Museum, New York, NY   Ackerman, Nadler
$1,217,000  
 Citrus Canker, Greening, FL   Several Lawmakers
$900,000  
 Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago, IL  Jackson, Jr., Emanuel, Davis (IL)
$142,500  
 Bus Replacement, Culver City, CA   Watson
$2,150,000  
 Wisconsin Height Modernization Obey
$1,900,000  
 Hattiesburg 4th Street Improvements, MS   Cochran, Wicker
$71,000  
 Dance Theater Etcetera, Brooklyn, NY Velázquez
$333,000  
 Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, GA Marshall (GA), Isakson  
$1,235,000  
 Reconstruction and Upgrade 2300 West Street, Lehi, UT   Hatch, Cannon
$380,000  
 Revitalize Aliceville, AL   Shelby
$150,000  
 Nashua Police Athletic League Youth Safe Haven   Hodes, Gregg  
$237,500  
 Paving, sidewalks and streetlights,  Islip, NY   Israel
$238,000  
 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Kennedy, Kerry  
$1,425,000  
 I-85 Widening, NC   Burr, Dole, Hayes, Watt
$285,000  
 Sun Valley Lighting Project, CA   Berman
$119,000  
 Children’s Discovery Museum, San Jose, CA Honda, Lofgren
$385,000  
 World Trade Center Utah   Bishop (UT), Bennett  
$300,000  
 Shakespeare and Company   Olver, Kennedy, Kerry  
$476,000  
 National Council of La Raza in Washington, DC, Menendez, Bingaman  
$508,000  
 Karnal Bunt, Manhattan, KS   Brownback, Roberts, Moran, Boyda, Tiahrt
$300,000  
 Fairplex Trade and Conference Center   Dreier, Napolitano
$237,500  
 SR-91 Congestion Relief, Orange County, CA   Miller (CA)
$380,000  
 Construction of On/Off Ramps, Midland, TX   Conaway
$380,600  
 Carbon Neutral Green Campus, NV  Porter, Reid  
$150,000  
 Manufacturers Association of Central New York   Walsh
$475,000  
 Calhoun County Highway 1 Resurfacing, IL   Hare
$45,000  
 Weed It Now on the Berkshire, MA Olver
$24,000  
 A+ For Abstinence, Waynesboro, PA Specter  
$819,000  
 Catfish Genome, Auburn, AL   Shelby, Rogers (AL), Everett, Davis (AL)  
$196,514  
 Beaver Street Enterprise Center, Jacksonville, FL   Brown (FL), Martinez  
$75,000  
 Chattahoochee County Family Connection   Bishop
$2,188,450  
 Bismarck State College Center Of Excellence Laboratories, ND  Dorgan  
$469,000  
 Fruit fly facility, HI   Akaka, Inouye, Hirono
$800,000  
 Oyster rehabilitation, AL Shelby  
$238,000  
 Ed Roberts Campus, Berkeley, CA Boxer  
$475,000  
 55th Street Extension, Rochester, MN   Donnelly, Lugar

Source: Conference Report of HR 1105


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15 Responses to “2009 Omnibus Pork Projects and their Sponsors”

  1. You’ll see a $2.6 million project from the “president” in the list. I guess that’s how they intend to take out his name.

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  2. Such a sham, they’re all hypocrites. Obama campaigned on getting rid of earmarks while he was busy putting them into the 2009 budget. So much for honesty and transparency.

    They all talk about how Americans are “suffering” and cutting back on spending yet congress is a bunch of drunken sailors with our checkbooks!

    What the heck is this:

    $200,000 Tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, CA

    I have to pay for someone’s idiot mistake of a tattoo? We’re fine with this?

    And this little gem:

    $225,000 Everybody Wins!

    So we’re paying $225 million so everybody can win? That’s fine, except we all LOSE in paying for whatever the heck it is.

    This is maddening and frustrating though it has been happening for years, Obama is just a liar because he said claimed “hope and change” which is crap.

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  3. Don’t we all remember Obama attacking the Gov. Sarah Palin for her earmarks:

    http://www.youdecidepolit.....wn-record/

    Obama is a squirrel.

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  4. Nate, the only ‘pork’ projects from your state include sidewalk construction and money for one of the most celebrated theaters for the performance arts in the nation.

    Even if you hate the arts and despise walking on sidewalks, don’t you think both those projects create a few jobs?

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  5. Hey, sorry babs I thought nate had posted this. Your state has money for a museum and funding for a recreation center for teens. I guess that really is pretty deplorable.

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  6. BABS

    I put a purposal on 50 House Dems. article you might want to accept. Maybe not !

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  7. Bones

    Streets and sidewalks are important. Just not the job of the Federal Government. If the State of NY or Nassau County or the Town of Islip deems that they need new streets there great, they have local taxes just for that. The Federal Government should not be in the business of taking money from Wyoming and spending it in NY, or taking it from NY and spending it in Kansas.

    If we just realized that one little fact, and got back to a smaller Federal Government and greater States rights, we’d be on the track to fixing a lot of what’s wrong.

    Personally I know that pigs smell. I don’t have to give up tax dollars to find out why. If someone does find out why, and finds away to combat it, they will find a way to profit from it. Not me.. let it be their capital at risk, not mine.

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  8. MichaelL,

    That’s exactly correct. Why is my tax money I pay here in Virginia going to build a sidewalk a thousand miles away? This doesn’t benefit me.

    If the people of Islip want a sidewalk, then they can find the funds to build a sidewalk on the local, or at most the state level.

    The federal government overreaches in every single budget and spends taxpayer money, which they have a fiduciary duty to care for, in irresponsible ways.

    Then take this for example:

    $380,600 Carbon Neutral Green Campus, NV

    Global warming is the greatest scam ever shoved on the American people and yet we’re spending $380k to make a carbon neutral campus? Is there any worse example of federal waste?

    People see things like sidewalks and think, “that’s great, they need a sidewalk.” In truth, they may indeed need a sidewalk but a taxpayer in Alaska shouldn’t be paying for a sidewalk in Texas, and vice-versa.

    Federal taxpayer money is for services which benefit the entire country as a whole, like the military for example. Or perhaps expanding our oil and gas drilling, or helping to build more power plants, etc…

    Likewise, a homeowner who has paid their mortgage on time for 10 years shouldn’t be paying the mortgage of some greedy bum who bough more home than they could afford.

    Federal money should benefit more than the people who live on a certain street needing a sidewalk. That does not benefit me in any way, shape or form, it simply takes my money and gives me nothing in return.

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  9. Babs in response to your reply the “president” earmark is for the Wood Education and Resource Center that is the same place he “met” Bill Ayers now tell me what is that money going to be for????????

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  10. You know, Tina, I KNEW that was ringing a bell when I read it! That’s exactly the Foundation they shared the board on, isn’t it? Well, well, the plot thickens. No wonder they wanted to pull Obama’s name from that one.

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  11. Babs yes it is and yes the plot thickens but hey the dems get what they want dont they!

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  13. [...] So far Obama has been in office for 58 days and has been faultering on campaign promises already.  He promised no pork in the budget, 9,287 earmarks in this budget.  So far all he’s done is spend more money in those 58 days than the totallity of every president from George Washington to George W. Bush!  If you want to see a sample of some of the ear marks, please go here:  http://www.youdecidepolit.....-sponsors/ [...]

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  14. [...] YouDecidePolitics.com, The Heritage Foundation Tags: 55th Street East Grade Separation, 5th & Market St. [...]

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  15. [...] you, this is just the porkulus bill.  There was also the 9,287 pork-project-laden $410 billion Omnibus spending bill and the soon-to-come $1.5 trillion socialized health care bill [...]

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