The Taxpayers Get Teed Off Award
For $3 million for the First Tee Program in St. Augustine, Fla.
The Out, Out Damn Pork! Award
For $2.25 million in various Shakespeare-related funding.
The Whole Hog Award
To Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) for his $524 million in pork for Alaska.
The Gobbling Up Tax Dollars Award
For $538,000 for the National Wild Turkey Federation in Edgefield, S.C.
The Fiscal Unfitness Award
For $6.8 million in YMCA funding.
The Milking the Taxpayers Award
For $15 million for overseas dairy development programs.
The Byrd Droppings Award
To Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) for his $238 million in pork for W.Va.
The Taxpayers Can’t Get No Satisfaction Award
For $300,000 for Rock and Roll related pork including $200,000 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and $100,000 for the Kids Rock Free Educational Program.
The Goofy Earmark Award
For $500,000 for Anaheim Resort Transit (Disneyland) buses in the district of Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.).
It’s the Real Pork Award
For $100,000 to restore a historic Coca-Cola building in Macon, Ga.
The Soaking the Taxpayers Award
To Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) for $50 million for an indoor rainforest in Coralville, Iowa.
The Drowning in Red Ink Award
To Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nev.) for $225,000 to rehabilitate the Deer Park Pool in Sparks, which Rep. Gibbons clogged with tadpoles in the 1950s.
The Hall of Shame Award
To Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) for his 23 years of pork barreling at taxpayers’ expense.
The Taxpayers Get Scrooged Award
For $2.2 million in pork for North Pole, Alaska (pop. 1,570).
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