Obama Citizenship

House GOP on Senate Stimulus Bill: Here?s the Pork!

By Phil

CNN reports that House Republican leaders have created a listing of some of the pork in the stimulus bill being debated by the Senate:

? $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.

? A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.

? $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.

? $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).

? $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.

? $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.

The listing continues…

? $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.

? $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.

? $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.

? $125 million for the Washington sewer system.

? $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.

? $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.

? $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”

? $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.

? $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.

? $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.

? $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.

? $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.

? $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.

? $500 million for state and local fire stations.

? $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.

? $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.

? $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.

? $412 million for CDC buildings and property.

? $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.

? $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.

? $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.

? $850 million for Amtrak.

? $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint. [haven't we stopped using lead-based paint some forty years ago??]

? $75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.

? $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.

? $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.

-Phil

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).