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For Immediate Release
December 11, 2009

Contact:  Leslie K. Paige 202-467-5334
       MacMillin Slobodien 202-467-5305

Pork Alert: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development
(The Omnibus Goes THUD)

Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is combing through the fiscal year (FY) 2010 omnibus bill containing six appropriations bills (State Department; Commerce, Justice, Science; Transportation; Labor/HHS; Financial Services, and Military Construction), 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 Department of Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Act, under the Economic Development Initiative program:  

  • $1,000,000 by Senate appropriator Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) for repairs, restoration, and modernization of a theatre and construction of an additional space at the Portsmouth Music Hall; 
  • $400,000 by House appropriator Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) for restoration and renovation of the historic Ritz Theatre in Newburgh, N.Y.;
  • $400,000 by Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) for construction and renovation for safety improvements at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden;
  • $350,000 by House appropriator Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) and Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) for renovation of the Uptown Theatre in Philadelphia; 
  • $250,000 by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) for construction of the Monroe County Farmer’s Market;
  • $250,000 by Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) for building renovation of the Murphy Theatre, in Wilmington;
  • $194,000 by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) for completion of the historic restoration project at the Historic Slater Mill in Pawtucket; 
  • $150,000 by House appropriator Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) for Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Inc., for renovation and build out of the Pregones Theatre, in the Bronx;
  • $100,000 by House appropriator Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) for construction on the Santa Ana River Trail.

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