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The Halls of Shame Award
For $750,000 for the Baseball Hall of Fame; $350,000 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; and $90,000 for the National Cowgirl Museum Hall of Fame.

The Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut Award
To Rep. Terry Everett (R-Ala.) for $202,500 for the National Peanut Festival Fairgrounds in Dothan, Alabama.

The Fiscal Unfitness Award
For $6.8 million in YMCA and YWCA funding.

The Taxpayers Get Tanked Award
For $3 million for the Department of Defense’s Tanker Lease Pilot Program.

The Don’t Step In It Award
For $4 million for the International Fertilizer Development Center.

The Gold Rush Award
To Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) for his $393 million in pork in Alaska.

The French Fried Pork Award
For $180,000 each to the Franco-American Heritage Center and the Forum Francophone Des Affaires in Maine.

The Sound of Pork Award
For $800,000 for the GRAMMY Foundation and $90,000 for the American Film Institute.

The Early Byrd Gets the Pork Award
To Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) for his $298 million in pork for West Virginia.

 

The Fiscally Un-Bearable Award
To Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) for a $1 million DNA study of bears.

 

The Deficit in My Diaper Award
For the $250,000 to implement the National Preschool Anger Management Project.

 

The Our Money Lies Over the Ocean Award
To Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) for his $353 million in pork for Hawaii.

The Taxpayers Get Shellacked Award
For $9.5 million in various wood research.