Porker of the Month: Rep. James Clyburn

CAGW* | December 5, 2007 

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) Porker of the Month for adding a $3 million earmark for the First Tee golf program into the Fiscal 2008 Defense Appropriations Act.  Even this pork-happy Congress that inserted 2,074 pet projects costing $6.6 billion into the 2008 defense bill initially rejected Rep. Clyburn’s earmark.  Rep. Clyburn claimed he had to add the money in a closed-door conference committee because “it didn’t make the cut” earlier.  In addition to circumventing normal budgetary procedures, the First Tee funds were not competitively awarded and are certainly not need-based.  In fact, First Tee has enough “green” to run ads during nationally televised golf events; receives corporate sponsorships from Fortune 500 companies; and boasts some of the sport’s heaviest hitting organizations as “Founding Partners,” including Augusta National Golf Club, the Professional Golfers’ Association of America and the United States Golf Association.  For chipping millions of dollars away from the defense budget in order to “putts” around with a pet golf project, CAGW names Rep. James Clyburn the November 2007 Porker of the Month.Read more about the Porker of the Month.


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