A Very Small Sampling of Projects Congress Wants You to Pay For
Sources: Heritage Foundation, Citizens Against Government Waste
$800,000 New Mexico Police Athletic League
$1,500,000 Conservation and management of the Bering Sea crab
$350,000 Turtle Mountain Community College’s Department of Justice for “Project Peacemaker”
$5,000,000 Gasification of Iowa Switch Grass
$2,000,000 Idaho Accelerator Center
$500,000 Recovery of Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse
$50,000 Indian Arts and Crafts Board
$2,000,000 Vulcan monument
$1,000,000 Sevier County, Utah for the construction of a multi-events center
$1,000,000 Indiana shoreline erosion
$4,000,000 for Arkabulta Lake in Mississippi
$7,000,000 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
$5,000,000 Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico
$3,500,000 Ice Age Trail
$4,300,000 Shrimp research
$1,000,000 Satsuma orange research
$750,000 Agricultural waste utilization in West Virginia