The Illinois Congressional Pork Report
by Cal Skinner
Taxpayers for Common Sense have totaled up the congressional earmarks in the budget bill being voted on this week.
I was reminded of that when I read an editorial cartoon sent to me by my Joplin, Missouri, brother-in-law. It was in the Saganaw News.
Scene: Husband and wife sitting at the breakfast table.Below is the list of who got what in this year's budget, which is due to be passed only about six months after the beginning of the fiscal year. They are listed in descending order from highest to lowest dollar amount of pork projects.
Husband: “Sez here they arrested a D.C. Madam for running a house of ill repute...”
Wife: “They arrested Polisi?”
- Ray LaHood, 23 earmarks totaling $8,774,250
Rahm Emanuel, 10 earmarks totaling $6,523,000
Jerry Costello, 12 earmarks totaling $5,425,175
Dan Lipinski, 12 projects totaling $4,451,172
Melissa Bean, 10 earmarks totaling $3,687,314 (one in McHenry County)
Bill Foster, 12 earmarks totaling $3,095,000
Danny Davis, 10 earmarks totaling $3,066,014
Jesse Jackson, Jr., 15 earmarks totaling $2,783,500
Peter Roskam, 12 earmarks totaling $2,655,330
John Shimkus, 13 earmarks totaling $2,421,750
Bobby Rush, 8 earmarks totaling $2,073,375
Don Manzullo, 6 earmarks totaling $2,070,500 (one in McHenry County)
Phil Hare, 7 earmarks totaling $2,031,000
Jan Schakowsky, 8 earmarks totaling $1,644,000
Jerry Weller, 7 earmarks totaling $1,243,250
Eschewing pork were Republicans Judy Biggert and Mark Kirk.
Three retired members, Rahm Emanuel, Ray LaHood and Jerry Weller get credit for projects anyway.
Newly elected Congress folks Debbie Halvorson and Aaron Shock were not listed.
Previous Illinois pork reports on McHenry County Blog:
2-28-9 Illinois Pork in the Commerce, Justice and Science BudgetsTomorrow at McHenry County Blog the bacon our United States Senators brought home.
3-1-9 Illinois Defense Department Pork
3-2-9 Homeland Security Pork in Illinois
3-2-9 Return of Planetarium Pork
3-3-9 Ray LaHood Tucks $90,000 Bandstand Renovation in Congressional Budget
3-3-9 Pork Where You Might Expect It – in the Agriculture Budget
3-4-9 Illinois Earmarks for Interior, Environment Bills
3-5-9 Illinois Comes Out on Short End of Military Pork
3-6-9 Illinois Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Congressional Earmarks – Part 1
3-7-9 Illinois Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Congressional Earmarks – Part 2 - Dick Durbin's
3-8-9 Illinois Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Congressional Earmarks – Part 3
3-9-9 Illinois Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Congressional Earmarks – Part 4
3-10-9 Illinois Corps of Engineers Pork
1 comments:
Cal -
I've been looking for a list of the actual projects...any idea where to find it?
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