law created by the Us Congress and signed by George W Bush in Aug'2005 containing billions of dollars in Pork Barrel projects, buried among the actual HighWay construction/maintenance.

Yesterday, Bush effectively signed a cease-fire - critics called it more like a surrender - in his war on pork. He signed into law a $286 billion transportation measure that contains a record 6,371 pet projects inserted by members of Congress from both parties... "There are nearly 6,500 member-requested projects worth more than $24 billion, nearly nine percent of the total spending," executives from six taxpayer and conservative groups complained in a letter to Bush urging that he use his veto pen for the first time. They noted that Reagan vetoed a transportation bill in 1987 because there were 152 such special requests, known in the parlance of congressional budgeting as "EarMark-s."

"Egregious and remarkable," exclaimed Sen. John Mc Cain, R-Ariz., about the estimated $24 billion in the bill set aside for highways, bus stops, parking lots and BiCycle trails. [McCain], one of only four senators to oppose the bill, listed several dozen "interesting" projects, including $480,000 to rehabilitate a historic warehouse on the Erie Canal and $3 million for dust control mitigation in Arkansas.

• the 4 who voted Nay: John Mc Cain ([AZ]), [Judd Gregg] ([NH]), [JonKyl] ([AZ]), [John Cornyn] ([TX])

  • why didn't Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (both of [CA]) vote?

    • sounds like they're bragging about the pork

  • Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton (of NY) both voted yes.

• only 8 voted Nay in the House Of Representatives

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8894520/

This led Glenn Reynolds and [NzBear] to set up Pork Busters.

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