Press release: For the fourth year in a row, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation (HJTF) today released the California Piglet Book, the definitive guide for reducing waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the California state government.
“The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW’s annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2006 Pig Book identified 9,963 projects in the 11 appropriations bills that constitute the discretionary portion of the federal budget for fiscal 2006, costing taxpayers $29 billion. A “pork” project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures. To qualify as pork, a project must meet one of seven criteria that were developed in 1991 by CAGW and the Congressional Porkbusters Coalition.”
Complete Pork Database: Search all 9,963 projects by keyword, state, or appropriations bill.”
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