Top 10 List Of The Pork In The Iraq War Emergency Funding Bill

In order to pass the Iraq war emergency funding bill with a timetable for defeat, Nancy Pelosi had to bribe members of congress with billions of dollars in earmarks.

Here is a list of the top ten earmarks as reported on politico.com:

–$165,200 to the widow of Rep. Charles Norwood (R-Ga.), a promoter of patients’ rights legislation who died of cancer and lung disease in February, three months after he was reelected.
 
–$4 million for the Office of Women’s Health at the Food and Drug Administration.
 
–$5 million for tropical fish breeders and transporters for losses from a virus last year.
 
–$25 million for spinach that growers and handlers were unable to market, up to 75 percent of their losses.
 
–$50 million “for asbestos abatement and other improvements” to the Capitol Power Plant.
 
–$60.4 million for the National Marine Fisheries Service, “to be distributed among fishing communities, Indian tribes, individuals, small businesses, including fishermen, fish processors, and related businesses, and other persons for assistance to mitigate the economic and other social effects caused by” a commercial fishery failure.
 
–$74 million “for the payment of storage, handling, and other associated costs for the 2007 crop of peanuts to ensure proper storage of peanuts for which a loan is made.”
 
–$120 million for the shrimp and menhaden fishing industries to cover consequences of Hurricane Katrina.
 
–$283 million for the Milk Income Loss Contract Program.
 
–$400 million for “wildland fire suppression.”

Two days into the new Democrat led congress earmark reform legislation was passed. This leads the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste to comment that the “special-interest goodies” in the war spending bill suggest that “the commitment to reform was short-lived.”

You can read the full article at politico.com.