| For Immediate Release | Contact: Mark Carpenter |
| July 11, 2002 | (202) 467-5300 |
Considering the trying financial times and the war in Iraq, appropriators should have cut the fat from this years Defense Appropriations bill. Instead, House appropriators beefed up the bill with 972 pork projects not requested by the Pentagon, which will cost taxpayers $5.2 billion. Apparently, these politicians do not agree with the concept of fiscal responsibility.
- The Garden Pork. House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Member Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-New Jersey) has never let New Jersey fall far behind in the mad dash for appropriations. The bill contains $6 million of unrequested projects for the Picatinny Aresenal, including $3 million for knowledge system management and $3 million for the TACOM-ARDEC.
- The Devil Went Down to California. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.) grabbed $4,000,000 for the Angel Gate Academy in her district.
- The pork, the pork, the pork is on fire. $5.1 million dollars for the Columbus Air Force Base in the district of Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) for including; $1,000,000 for Phase III sanitary sewer system repair; $3,500,000 to repair pavement on the auxilery airfield; $612,000 to replace the fire alarm system base-wide.
- At least, it will be easier to see how the Appropriators are spending tax dollars. $4,000,000 for the precision polishing of large optics.
- God, help us all. $3,500,000 for on-line medical training.
- Seriously, we are not making this up. $150,000 for the Military Sexual Integrity Program.
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