MD Congressional Members Rank High in ‘Pig Book’

[Lee]

Members of Maryland’s Congressional Delegation have excelled in their tax-and-spending ways by earning high rankings in the Citizens Against Government Waste ‘Pig Book’, which measures the number and amounts of earmarks each member introduced.

Link to rankings.

 

[ImnoMensa]

Its why they keep getting elected.

Buying votes with tax dollars.

You would think with all the pork we are getting from Federal dollars we wouldnt have to have Maryland taxes so high wouldnt you?

Doesn't work that way. Democrats are addicted to taxing and spending and Marylanders like it that way. Why else would they turn a man out from the Governors mansion who got us out of Spendening's deficit and had a surplus.

Yes we will take all the Federal pork we can get our hands on and still pork the Maryland citizens.

 

[Lenny]

Its why they keep getting elected.

Buying votes with tax dollars.

You would think with all the pork we are getting from Federal dollars we wouldnt have to have Maryland taxes so high wouldnt you?

Doesn't work that way. Democrats are addicted to taxing and spending and Marylanders like it that way. Why else would they turn a man out from the Governors mansion who got us out of Spendening's deficit and had a surplus.

Yes we will take all the Federal pork we can get our hands on and still pork the Maryland citizens.

But does the amount of pork pouring into Maryland explain why the Arabs congregate in Michigan?

 

[awpitt]

Members of Maryland’s Congressional Delegation have excelled in their tax-and-spending ways by earning high rankings in the Citizens Against Government Waste ‘Pig Book’, which measures the number and amounts of earmarks each member introduced.

Link to rankings.

Interesting that their report doesn't list what the earmarks are. I'll bet there are a few of Steny's that folks in SoMD are real happy about having.

 

[vegmom]

Interesting that their report doesn't list what the earmarks are. I'll bet there are a few of Steny's that folks in SoMD are real happy about having.

 

[ImnoMensa]

Interesting that their report doesn't list what the earmarks are. I'll bet there are a few of Steny's that folks in SoMD are real happy about having.

No doubt about it. Thats why they keep sending him back.

He also has St. Mary's convinced that the base will close the day he goes out the door.

 

[chernmax]

These are some of the Earmarks!!!

$11,972,075 for 17 projects by Senate CJS Appropriations
Subcommittee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), including:
$2,350,000 for Teach for America, New York, to engage teachers
in science, technology, engineering and mathematics through the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); $893,000
for the NationalAquarium in Baltimore Conservation and Education
Programs for conservation and education programs of the marine
environment National Aquarium of Baltimore; $178,600 for Johns
Hopkins University Baltimore for the Johns Hopkins Prisoner Career
Re-Entry Program to provide job training and placement.

$146,000 by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) for exhibits
and educational programs at the College Park Aviation Museum.

$438,000 by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) for
education activities at the In Tune Foundation Group. According
to a December 10, 2007 Washington Post article, the director, other
current and former employees of In Tune, and their families have
donated at least $31,000 to Rep. Hoyer’s political action committee
from 2004 to 2006. In the same article, Rep. Hoyer stated, “If you
support something…either through legislative language or verbal
support or appropriated dollars, what happens is the proponents of
those objectives wind up saying they want to support you.” He
added, “Sometimes it's a question of which is the chicken and
which is the egg.” Sometimes you can be both.


Pork Per Capita by State
Maryland ranking in 2008 = 22
Pork spending = $240,356,990
Population = 5,618,344
Pork/Capita = $42.78
Maryland ranking in 2006 = 22
Amount of change = 0

2007 Pork:

$102,000,000 for projects in the state of Senate appropriator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and the district of House appropriator Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), including: $9,500,000 for the Extended ColdWeather Clothing System; $5,000,000 for the Energetics Technology Center, $3,250,000 for the Rotorcraft Survivability Assessment Facility; $2,500,000 for PEM fuel cell tactical generators; $2,000,000 for Life Shield® blast resistant panels, developed by Life Shield Engineered Systems in Maryland; and $1,000,000 for the SureTrak Program.

2006 Pork:

$17,700,000 for projects in the state of Senate SSJC Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and House appropriator Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), including: $4,000,000 for the Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics Consortium in Baltimore; $2,500,000 for the Goddard Space Flight Center for radiance process dry-cleaning capability; and $200,000 for Coppin State University, for the Middle Passage Project to support the Geospatial Sciences Laboratory.

 

[vegmom]

But aren't all those earmarks for programs that create jobs in their districts?

 

[RadioPatrol]

$178,600 for Johns Hopkins University Baltimore for the Johns Hopkins Prisoner Career Re-Entry Program to provide job training and placement.

this one might be worth while, if it helps an ex con from becoming a repeat offender ...

 

[vegmom]

this one might be worth while, if it helps an ex con from becoming a repeat offender ...

Really- it probably costs that much to house and feed someone thru a life sentence.

 

[awpitt]

These are some of the Earmarks!!!

$11,972,075 for 17 projects by Senate CJS Appropriations
Subcommittee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), including:
$2,350,000 for Teach for America, New York, to engage teachers
in science, technology, engineering and mathematics through the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); $893,000
for the NationalAquarium in Baltimore Conservation and Education
Programs for conservation and education programs of the marine
environment National Aquarium of Baltimore; $178,600 for Johns
Hopkins University Baltimore for the Johns Hopkins Prisoner Career
Re-Entry Program to provide job training and placement.

$146,000 by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) for exhibits
and educational programs at the College Park Aviation Museum.

$438,000 by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) for
education activities at the In Tune Foundation Group. According
to a December 10, 2007 Washington Post article, the director, other
current and former employees of In Tune, and their families have
donated at least $31,000 to Rep. Hoyer’s political action committee
from 2004 to 2006. In the same article, Rep. Hoyer stated, “If you
support something…either through legislative language or verbal
support or appropriated dollars, what happens is the proponents of
those objectives wind up saying they want to support you.” He
added, “Sometimes it's a question of which is the chicken and
which is the egg.” Sometimes you can be both.


Pork Per Capita by State
Maryland ranking in 2008 = 22
Pork spending = $240,356,990
Population = 5,618,344
Pork/Capita = $42.78
Maryland ranking in 2006 = 22
Amount of change = 0

2007 Pork:

$102,000,000 for projects in the state of Senate appropriator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and the district of House appropriator Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), including: $9,500,000 for the Extended ColdWeather Clothing System; $5,000,000 for the Energetics Technology Center, $3,250,000 for the Rotorcraft Survivability Assessment Facility; $2,500,000 for PEM fuel cell tactical generators; $2,000,000 for Life Shield® blast resistant panels, developed by Life Shield Engineered Systems in Maryland; and $1,000,000 for the SureTrak Program.

2006 Pork:

$17,700,000 for projects in the state of Senate SSJC Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and House appropriator Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), including: $4,000,000 for the Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics Consortium in Baltimore; $2,500,000 for the Goddard Space Flight Center for radiance process dry-cleaning capability; and $200,000 for Coppin State University, for the Middle Passage Project to support the Geospatial Sciences Laboratory.

What's the source for these? Are there more?

 

[BOP]

Its why they keep getting elected.

Buying votes with tax dollars.

You would think with all the pork we are getting from Federal dollars we wouldnt have to have Maryland taxes so high wouldnt you?

Doesn't work that way. Democrats are addicted to taxing and spending and Marylanders like it that way. Why else would they turn a man out from the Governors mansion who got us out of Spendening's deficit and had a surplus.

Yes we will take all the Federal pork we can get our hands on and still pork the Maryland citizens.

You wouldn't be suggesting that there are more people in Maryland who don't pay taxes than those who do, and thus, the majority of Marylanders aren't negatively affected by the tax-and-spend dummyrats, are you?

Or maybe it's that those of us who do taxes are working so freakin' hard to support our heads above water that we haven't noticed what the legislative freaks have been up to lately?