$180,531,502: That’s total value of the 223 pork barrel projects secured from the federal government by New Jersey’s Congressional delegation, according to the 2008 Pig Book.
It's a small number compared to the $17.2 billion national total that Citizens Against Government Waste found in FY 2008’s 12 appropriation bills.
New Jersey ranks 43rd out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with $20.78 of pork per capita.
You can search the Pig Book database here, but below are some highlights from New Jersey’s elected officials in Washington.
Joe Ferriero's recent legal woes -- allegations that he assaulted a woman at a Labor Day barbecue at his home, and a federal probe of a grants ... >
There's something missing from the Republican Convention. There is a need for a camera behind the curtain where speakers greet ... >
Barack Obama offers a hard-left vision for America. He would take NJ's disastrous economic policies national, and the resulting economic ... >
Selecting the next NJN anchor will certainly be a different process than what happens at the major networks, local affiliates and other public ... >
Tibet – the broad, high plateau between India and China – is bigger than Western Europe and the source of the great rivers of Asia: the Indus, ... >
For the past few weeks, I've watched with fascination as politician after politician have appeared on a beach or a boardwalk and declared their ... >
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on Meet the Press, made a statement that incurred the wrath of members of the Catholic bishops club. She dared to say that ... >
And now we go back in time, to Mr. Dembo's eighth grade science class and JHS 278, and a sixteen millimeter film about the seasonal migration of ... >
Loser again...
Lautenberg probably fell asleep during the porking...sad that NJ can't even get a fair cut of tax revenues...
"the porking"
too funny
I guess you could say ...
Frank has failed to bring home the bacon.
CUT TAXES!
In light of this fact, why don't more of our representatives fight to lower federal taxes?