Top Secret Competition --DeWese

Then there was the recent Transportation Bill to which various legislators attached 1,600 "pork barrel" amendments. I'm all for helping the Katrina victims and having a great transportation system, but these amendments had nothing to do with the hurricane victims or better roads. One taxpayer watchdog group reports that there were 13,977 pork projects totaling $27.3 billion in the fiscal 2005 appropriations bills. These were new appropriations for our politicians' various pet projects in their home states. This is called getting reelected.