postheadericon CAGW Releases 2005 Congressional Pig Book

Oh' how our government loves to spend (and waste) our money.  The 2005 Congressional Pig Book is a document from Citizen's Against Government Waste. 

"Once again, Congress porked out at record levels. For fiscal 2005, appropriators stuffed 13,997 projects into the 13 appropriations bills, an increase of 31 percent over last year's total of 10,656. In the last two years, the total number of projects has increased by 49.5 percent. The cost of these projects in fiscal 2005 was $27.3 billion, or 19 percent more than last year's total of $22.9 billion. In fact, the total cost of pork has increased by 21 percent since fiscal 2003. Total pork identified by CAGW since 1991 adds up to $212 billion.

As in previous years, all of the items named in the Pig Book meet at least one of CAGW

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