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		<title>Pork Report, January 22, 2009: Bureaucrats Gone Wild Edition</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bureaucrats gone wild!  Taxpayers charged for international trysts, golf, skiing, and other government junkets
Military officials bought thousands of dollars worth of alcohol, food and other amenities for congressional overseas junkets
Delaware airport that “hardly ever sees a paying passenger” has received $12.3 million from the federal Airport Improvement Program for a runway construction project
Tennessee library [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/22/taxpayers-bucks-spent-on-trysts-golf-skiing/  ">Bureaucrats gone wild</a>!  Taxpayers charged for international trysts, golf, skiing, and other government junkets</p>
<p>Military officials bought <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704362004575000943067824382.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5">thousands of dollars worth of alcohol, food and other amenities</a> for congressional overseas junkets</p>
<p>Delaware airport that <a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100105/NEWS/1050335/Airpark-s-federal-grant-afloat-in-jet-stream-of-controversy">“hardly ever sees a paying passenger” has received $12.3 million</a> from the federal Airport Improvement Program for a runway construction project</p>
<p>T<a href="http://www.murfreesboropost.com/library-offers-football-and-rock-band-for-teens-cms-21191  ">ennessee library pays for Rock Band video game session </a>and Monday Night Football with a $5,000 federal Community Building Through Video Games in Libraries grant</p>
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<p>Nearly five years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, <a href="http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/politics/81907912.html">Louisiana still looking for ways to spend one-third of the $13.4 billion leftover</a> from the funds provided by the federal government for recovery efforts</p>
<p>Defense appropriations bill signed by President Obama  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/28/AR2009122802133.html">contained 97 pages listing nearly 1,000 congressional earmarks </a>costing billions of dollars</p>
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