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A Platter Of Pork

Chomp, chomp! Slurp, slurp! Here's a sample of some of the tasty and exotic morsels of pork lawamakers served up in the 104th Congress.

	$250,000 to study floriculture in Hawaii
	$500,000 to a viticulture consortium to enhance U.S. grape farming.
	$473,000 to study human nutrition research including low-fat snack foods
	$12,678,000 for a swine research center.
	$4,200,000 for wood utilization handicrafts
	$1,214,000 for potato research
	$2,700,000 for a botanic garden in New York
	$1,000,000 to aid socially disadvantaged farmers
	$785,000 for bluefish/striped bass research
	$300,000 for Gulf of Mexico mariculture
	$19,600,000 for the International Fund for Ireland, including funding for golf videos, pony trekking centers and sweater exports.
	$3,000,0000 for projects and New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park
	$400,000 for Maui algal bloom project
	$681,000 on latrine additions at Fort Harrison, Montana
	$1,000,000 for Brown Tree Snake research.

Source: Citizens Against Government Waste