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		<title>The Pork Report: October 9, 2009</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Byrd earmarks $5 million in Defense funds for a company that no longer exists
House committee earmarks $103 million of Defense funds to contractors who employ the congressmen’s former staffers-turned-lobbyists
National Science Foundation studies the bug splatter on the front bumper of a moving vehicle
National Historic Site in Maryland created by a congressional earmark costs $638,000 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Senator Byrd <a href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_38/morning/39342-1.html ">earmarks $5 million</a> in Defense funds for a company that no longer exists</p>
<p>House committee earmarks $103 million of Defense funds to contractors who <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100704099.html# ">employ the congressmen’s former staffers-turned-lobbyists</a></p>
<p>National Science Foundation <a href="http://http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/cshl-bso100509.php ">studies the bug splatter on the front bumper </a>of a moving vehicle</p>
<p>National Historic Site in Maryland created by a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/25/AR2009092503890.html">congressional earmark costs $638,000 a year </a>and has fewer visitors than some Alaskan parks that can&#8217;t even be reached by road</p>
<p>New USDA research agency <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/cda_20091009_8900.php">already wants more money</a></p>
<p>Like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Administration <a href="http://http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/business/09fha.html?_r=1&amp;hp">might need a federal bailout</a></p>
<p>Most Interior Department law enforcement programs <a href="http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/print/2009/10/05/6">can not accurately account for the firearms </a>under their control and some of their guns are vulnerable to theft</p>
<p>Bureau of Land Management employees <a href="http://http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2009/10/05/3">too cozy with special interest groups </a>and lobbyists, according to the Inspector General</p>
<p>A new computer system key to the nation&#8217;s <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gEH8D_Erb_xPAm1zh411j6XfUI6AD9B6GTOG2">air traffic control system has already run into problems</a>, raising doubts about whether it can be operational when the current computers must be replaced</p>
<p>California has <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-deadbeat-state6-2009oct06,0,6309986.story">paid more than $8 million in late-payment penalties </a>over the last two years because Sacramento did not pay the bills when they were owed</p>
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