Pig Book: Maine ranks 41st in pork barrel spending
By Jamie Klatell, Politicker.com Editor$29,521,553: That’s total value of the 54 pork barrel projects secured from the federal government by Maine’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.
Maine ranks 41st out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with $22.41 of pork per capita.
You can search the Pig Book database here, but below are some highlights from Maine’s elected officials in Washington.
- Smallest project: $16,000 for the “Surveillance of Northern Boundary Waters (Corps of Engineers: Operation and Maintenance)”
- Largest project: $9,700,000 for the “Consolidated emergency control center, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (Navy)”
- Sen. Susan Collins sponsored bills worth $81.3 million
- Sen. Olympia Snowe sponsored bills worth $70.0 million
- Collins and Snowe win the "Taxpayers Get Steamed Award," along with Rep. Thomas Allen, because of $188,000 for the Lobster Institute.
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