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The Treasure Island Award
To Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) for an $849 million bounty of pork since 1991.

 

The Half-Baked Alaska Award
To Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) for cooking up $477 million worth of pork since 1991.

 

The Tree Hugger Award
For $3.5 million ($45 million since 1985) in wood utilization research.

 

The Copernicus Award
To Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) for believing that the universe revolves around Montana with his $50 million in pork in 1998.

 

The Sushi Slush Fund Award
To Sen. Inouye for a $127,000 grant for aquaculture research in Hawaii including the cultivation of edible seaweed.

 

The Black Hole Award
To the Department of Defense for $3 million to build the Southern Observatory for Astronomical Research.

 

The Piracy on the Potomac Award
To Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) for procuring a $720 million unrequested naval ship.

 

The Up Ship’s Creek Award
To Sen. Stevens for $8.4 million in Energy and Water pork including $100,000 for Ship Creek.

 

The Cup Runneth Way Over Award
For the International Fund for Ireland’s $19.6 million appropriation even though they still have $40 million in unspent funds.

 

The Golden Shovel Award
For the $3 million to the International Fertilizer Development Center.

 

The Desperado Award
For $200,000 added by the Senate to rock music has-been Don Henley’s Caddo Lake Institute.

 

The Giving the Taxpayers the Shaft Award
To Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) for digging up $800,000 to build a historical coal library in Pennsylvania.

 

The Mighty Morphin’ Power Porkers Award
To all appropriators who plundered the $137 million Economic Development Initiative Program.