The Citizens Against Government Waste released their annual "Pig Book" listing the earmarks requested in the latest budget bill. I am sure we will hear more about specific pork requests over the next few weeks, but you can find a complete listing of all 11,610 projects totaling $17.2 Billion here.
"[...] we’re going to have to cut the spending, we’re going to have to eliminate the pork barrel and wasteful spending. And I’m proud to tell you, Chris, in 24 years as a member of Congress, I have never asked for nor received a single earmark or pork barrel project for my state and I guarantee you I’ll veto those bills. I’ll ask for the line item veto and I’ll veto them and I’ll make the authors of them famous."
- John McCain in an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace
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