Most TSA employees to receive performance-based pay hikes

Taxpayers spent more than $1.1 million to send members of Congress and their staff on junkets to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Denmark

More than half of the companies that have received federal stimulus dollars to do highway work in Massachusetts have a history of breaking the law

Monterey wine association receives $98,5000 federal stimulus grant

$2 million of federal stimulus money paying to teach Ohio residents how to cut, color and style hair

Atlantic City spends federal stimulus money to pay for more than $276,000 worth of playground equipment

Nearly three out of four Americans think that at least half of the money spent in the federal stimulus plan has been wasted, according to a new CNN poll

Texas spends federal transportation funds on “spectacular” rest areas that include “state-of-the-art” vending machines and even a Battleship Texas restoration project

Louisiana spent millions of dollars of federal funds intended for health care for low income and uninsured patients to pay for the state’s hazardous road claims

· “It beats being at work!” Federal Aviation Administration spent $5 million to send 3, 600 managers to a conference in Atlanta that some say was little more than an excuse to throw a three-week-long party

· Congress spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to send politicians and staff on a junket to the global warming summit that failed to reach a climate agreement

· “Stealth” company whose address appears to be an empty office to receive $9.2 million federal grant

· The Postal Service’s top marketing executive directed more than $1.3 million in sole-source contracts to former business associates; As a result, some postal employees are sitting idle because the consultants are doing what previously were their jobs

· Local builders are being excluded from Air Force housing project in Montana

· Nearly three years after Congress approved new ethics rules, no member of Congress has been punished for wrongdoing

· The U.S. Agency for International Development pays hundreds of millions of dollars to the United Nations Office for Project Services for projects in Afghanistan that have been plagued with fraud, mismanagement and lack of internal financial controls

National Science Foundation researchers study the cure for low approval ratings of members of Congress

“The groundbreaking study … found that online deliberative forums are likely to sway swing voters in favor of the lawmaker holding the online forum,” says taxpayer funded study

Taxpayer funded study claims online town hall meetings increase constituents’ approval of politicians and likelihood of voting to re-elect a politician to Congress

Department of Energy will spend $151 million for “radical” research projects, “most of which will probably fail”

Congressman supported at least $44 million in earmarks for companies that did not operate in his home state, nearly all of which donated to his campaign just before or soon after receiving the promise of federal money

House subcommittee plans Honolulu junket to check on stimulus spending

Vinegar producer in Nebraska gets start up funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Boyz Nite Out: Cover band concert underwritten with federal stimulus funds

Indiana city spending $625,000 in federal transportation funds to place 40 decorative street lights