Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is combing through the fiscal year (FY) 2010 omnibus bill containing six appropriations bills (Transportation, Housing and Urban Development; Commerce, Justice, Science; Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; State and Foreign Operations; Financial Services and General Government, and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs), preparing to announce earmark totals.  In the meantime, taxpayers can get a taste of the kind of pork-barrel earmarks uncovered so far in the FY 2010 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act:     

• $200,000 by House appropriator Marion Berry (D-Ark.) for the Arkansas Commercial Driver Training Institute at Arkansas State University;
• $150,000 by House appropriator James Moran (D-Va.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) for education programs and exhibitions at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.; and,

 $134,000 by House appropriator Dennis Rehberg (R-Mont.) for Montana Growth Through Trade at the Montana World Trade Center;

•  $100,000 by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Henry Brown (R-S.C.) for the Myrtle Beach International Trade and Conference Center. 

Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, mismanagement and abuse in government.