Congress is Porker of the Month for November '04

(Washington, D.C.) - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named the entire U.S. Congress the November Porker of the Month for passing the pork-laden fiscal 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Act. The spending package contains nine of the 13 appropriations bills that will fund the federal government through September 2005. The President’s signature is being held up by an obscure provision, drafted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and inserted by an unknown congressional staffer, that would have given the appropriations committees the power to view the income tax returns of any American. The omnibus bill contains more than 11,000 pork-barrel projects.
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