Pig Book 2008

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) have published the latest edition of their “Pig Book”.

The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW’s annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the USA’s federal budget.

The 2008 Pig Book identified 11,610 projects at a cost of $17.2 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2008. A “pork” project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures.

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