{"id":1875,"date":"2005-10-23T12:43:56","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T12:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2005-10-23T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T12:43:56","slug":"number_of_pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1875","title":{"rendered":"Number of Pork Projects in Federal Spending Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Roth<\/a>:<\/p>\n

From Chris Edwards’ new book, Downsizing the Federal Government<\/a> (which cited CAGW<\/a>):<\/p>\n

2005 – 13,997
\n2004 – 10,656
\n2003 – 9,362
\n2002 – 8,341
\n2001 – 6,333
\n2000 – 4,326
\n1999 – 2,838
\n1998 – 2100
\n1997 – 1,596
\n1996 – 958
\n1995 – 1439<\/p>\n

Using 2005 numbers, by voting down the “Bridges” amendment, the Senate let the country know that it was unwilling to defund 2 out of 13,997 pork projects today. That’s 0.0142887762 percent.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Roth: From Chris Edwards’ new book, Downsizing the Federal Government (which cited CAGW): 2005 – 13,997 2004 – 10,656 2003 – 9,362 2002 – 8,341 2001 – 6,333 2000 – 4,326 1999 – 2,838 1998 – 2100 1997 – 1,596 1996 – 958 1995 – 1439 Using 2005 numbers, by voting down the “Bridges” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}