Keep the Pork out of the Emergency Spending Bill!

Help stop $21 billion of pork-barrel spending in the proposed emergency supplemental appropriations bill by telling your U.S. Representative and Senators to sign CCAGW’s Emergency Supplemental No Pork Pledge today! 

President Bush’s request for $103 billion to fund the Global War on Terror and hurricane relief efforts has ballooned into a $124 billion measure stuffed full of pork!  Much of the additional $21 billion is aimed at projects that have nothing to do with the War or hurricane relief, such $283 million for the Milk Income Loss Contract program, $74 million for peanut storage costs, $60.4 million for salmon fisheries, $50 million for asbestos mitigation at the U.S. Capitol Plant, and $25 million for spinach growers. 

Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars should be used only for projects or provisions that are directly related to the emergency supplemental requested by the President that provides funds for our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq and hurricane relief.  

Tell your U.S. Representative and Senators to act responsibly and not waste precious tax dollars. Tell them to sign CCAGW’s Emergency Supplemental No Pork Pledge today!