Porkiest Science Projects from Congress – Sen. McCain Tweets
March 6, 2009 by Grace Ibay
Filed under Health
I got this off Senator John McCain’s Twitter (yes, he now tweets). Over the last few days, the Arizona lawmaker has been tweeting his version of “The Top Porkiest Projects” in the Omnibus spending bill.
Here are science/genetics projects that Sen. McCain consider earmarks or pork-barrel:
- “$819, 000 for catfish genetics research in Alabama”
- “$1,427,250 for genetic improvements of switchgrass – I thought switchgrass genes were pretty good already, guess I was wrong.”
- “$1 million for mormon cricket control in Utah – is that the species of cricket or a game played by the brits?”
- “$650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi”
- “$250,000 to enhance research on Ice Seal populations”
- “$209,000 to improve blueberry production and efficiency in GA”
- “$900,000 for fish management – how does one manage a fish…”
- “$7,100,000 for the conservation and recovery of endangered Hawaiian sea turtle populations”
I’m not sure these are “pork” projects. Some of them I would consider important to the sciences. But I would have to agree with the senator on this one project as truly pork-and-beans:
- $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa
What do you think?
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