95% of Pork Projects Not Legally Binding? Get Ambulances to the Capitol, IMMEDIATELY!
(Moved to the top because of the importance of the topic)
If this is true, we’ll need to be sure that Senator “Waste Ted†Stevens of Alaska and other pork abusers are near defibrillators when they find out.
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The Club for Growth Blog refers to a Congressional Records Service report (PDF), and says:
According to a new report ….. 95% of all pork projects are not legally binding. The report concluded that only 543 out of 12,852 earmarks were actually written into the text of last year’s appropriations bills. As for the remaining 12,309 unauthorized pork projects, the report states, “Earmarks that appear in committee reports and the statements of managers do not legally bind agencies…â€.
If this is true, I think we will better understand why it’s called “pork” in the days to come, as the SQUEALS in the halls of Congress from the likes of “Waste Ted” and others at the possibility that their beloved earmarked funds may not legally have to be spent grow in volume.
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UPDATE: Fellow S.O.B. Alliance member Porkopolis digs in and verifies DeMint’s work with characteristic thoroughness.
