‘Pig Book’ tallies $17.2 billion in pork
3rd April 2008
‘Name and Shame’ is the first step on the road to getting this crap under control. Voters are easy but they aren’t cheap.
The top three “porkers” identified in the “Pig Book” all were Republican members of the Senate Appropriations Committee: ranking member Thad Cochran of Mississippi with $892 million, Ted Stevens of Alaska with $469 million and Richard C. Shelby of Alabama with $465 million.
Somebody beat Ted Stevens? That’s a shock.