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The Sapping the Taxpayers Award
For $13.6 million in various wood research.

 

The Black Hole Award
For $15.5 million in funding for telescopes and observatories.

 

The Snow Job Award
To Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) for his blizzard of $451 million or ($711 per capita) in pork for fiscal 2002.

 

The Shear Waste Award
To Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) for the $400,000 for the Montana Sheep Institute.

 

The Looney Tunes Award
For $475,000 for numerous orchestras.

 

The Taxpayers Get Tattooed Award
To Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) for a $50,000 tattoo removal program in San Luis Obispo, California.

 

The Kick in the Grass Award
For $740,000 for the National Soccer Center in Lancaster, Calif. And $500,000 for the Washington D.C. Sports Commission and U.S. Soccer Foundation.

 

The Pacific Fleeced Award
To Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) for his $432.6 million in pork.

 

The Taxpayers Get Squeezed Award
For $800,000 for Satsuma Orange research in Alabama.

 

The Pedaling Pork Award
For $6.8 million in spending for bicycle paths.

 

The Flipping the Byrd at the Taxpayer Award
To Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) for sending $388 million in pork to West Virginia.

 

The Monumental Waste Award
To Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) for the $2 million grant to refurbish the Vulcan Statue in Birmingham, Alabama.

 

The Narcissist Award
To Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings (D-S.C.) for $14 million for the Hollings Marine Laboratory and $1 million for the Hollings Cancer Center.