Coburn's Pork Report

This past week, Oklahoma U.S. Senator Tom Coburn posted his latest Pork Report which identifies at least $504,254,000 in wasteful Washington spending.

How Washington politicians, bureaucrats, and lobbyists are spending your tax dollars:

Federal government spending millions of dollars a year on catered meals for state government employees click to read more

Federal funds pay to send state government employees on junkets to casinos from the Gulf Coast to Las Vegas click to read more

Stimulus funded teacher training included junket to New York City with limousine pick-up service click to read more

More than half-a-million dollars of federal funds spent to complete “Rockin’ the Kremlin,” a 90-minutes movie about how rock and roll music contributed to the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union click to read more

The bucks stop here, but the trucks won’t: Truck stop received $424,000 federal stimulus grant despite filing for bankruptcy and a history of financial problems click to read more

The National Renewable Energy Lab, a key part of the federal stimulus program, to eliminate 100 to 150 jobs click to read more

Half-a-billion dollar federal green-jobs program fails; No “evidence of market demand” for the jobs people are being trained to perform click to read more

Massachusetts residents upset federal stimulus funds being spent on a “fish ladder” rather than fixing potholes click to read more

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