GOP Loves Eating Pork
The GOP led House passed this spending bill that I pray the Senate will clean up. Check out some of this garbage. Brian, you should be ashamed of these so called conservatives.
$373,824 for Grapefruit Juice/Drug Interaction research in Temple, Texas.
$390,101 for Honey Bee Research (Varroa Mites) in Baton Rouge, La.
$668,570 for Diet Nutrition and Obesity Research in New Orleans, La.
$387,976 for Manure Management research (National Swine Research Center) in Ames, Iowa.
$66,000 for the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation in DC
$300,000 for ivory-billed woodpecker research.
$1.5 million for construction of an entrance off Bladensburg Road for the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.
Interior Department appropriations
$700,000 for wolf monitoring in Idaho.
$150,000 for Northern Aplomado falcon recovery efforts.
$200,000 for landscape work at Gettysburg.
$20 million for the Olympic National Park, Wash.
$2.96 million to replace lighting system at Wind Cave National Part, S.D.
$5 million to acquire land for a Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania.
$66,000 for the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation in Washington, D.C.
$300,000 for ivory-billed woodpecker research.
$375,000 for a Central California Ozone Study, San Joaquin Valleywise Air Pollution Study Agency.
$1 million for Florida Department of Citrus Abscission Chemical Studies.
$2 million for Environmental Systems Center of Excellence at Syracuse University for indoor environmental quality and urban ecosystems sustainability research.
$1 million for Iowa State University project on mitigating emissions from egg farms.
$1 million for National Hispanic Health Farm Workers Initiative.
$6 million for the Chesapeake Bay program.
$1.4 million for gypsy moth slow-the-spread research.
$72,000 for sudden oak death research.
$16 million on southern pine beetle forest health initiative
$1 million for the South Lake Tahoe wildfire protection as a grant to the South Lake Tahoe Public Utility District.
$1.9 million for Allegheny National Forest recreation sites, PA.
$1 million for construction at the Pacific Crest National Scenic trial.
$17 million Phoenix SW Health Center.
$6.7 million for the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development.
$700,000 for the National Zoological Part to provide for staffing for the opening of the new Asia I exhibit and for enhanced pest control.
Page 49 of committee report lists heritage areas receiving funding (totals $13.9 million).
Agriculture appropriations
$447,009 for Barley Food Health Benefits in Beltsville, MD.
$244,077 for bee research in Weslaco, Texas.
$1.0 million for Bovine Genetics in Beltsville, MD.
$1.7 million for Cereal Crops in Fargo, ND
$790,744 for coffee and cocoa research in Beltsville, MD.
$490,354 for Corn Rootworm research in Ames, Iowa.
$373,824 for Grapefruit Juice/Drug Interaction research in Temple, Texas.
$390,101 for Honey Bee Research (Varroa Mites) in Baton Rouge, LA.
$668,570 for Diet Nutrition and Obesity Research in New Orleans, LA.
$387,976 for Manure Management research (National Swine Research Center) in Ames, Iowa.
$365,156 for potato breeding research in Aberdeen, Idaho.
$878,046 for Catfish Genome research in Auburn, Ala.
$3.6 million for climate forecasting in Florida.
$2.5 million for cotton research in Texas.
$1.14 million for the Center for Innovative Food Technology in Ohio .
$406,000 for agroecology in Maryland.
$1.9 million for Red Imported Fire Ants, in Stoneville, MS.
$450,000 for oyster post-harvest treatment in Florida
$24.184 million for eradication and control for Glassy-winged Sharpshooters/Pierce’s Disease.
$20 million for eradication and control of Emerald Ash Borer.
$6.5 million for eradication and control of Sudden Oak Death.
$19.9 million for eradication and control of Asian Long-horned Beetle.
$2.7 million for eradication and control of Krnal bunt.
$150,000 for blackbird control in LA.
$940,000 for brown tree snake management in Guam.
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