April 16, 2010 at 11:07 AM MST
This week, Senator McCain spoke at the Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) Press Conference to highlight the release of the 2010 Congressional "Pig Book".
The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW's annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2010 Pig Book identified 9,129 projects at a cost of $16.5 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2009. A "pork" project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures.
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