"... $700,000 for a "biomass" (human waste) project at Mississippi State University.But don't worry, they weren't complete spendthrifts. The esteemed solons did pinch a few pennies by cutting "$12.5 million for a foreign-terrorist-tracking task force and $3.6 million to beef up the U.S. Capitol Police".
... $2 million to store the Smithsonian's collection of worms and other organisms in an alcohol solution
... $750,000 for the Smart Start Child Care Center and Expertise School in Las Vegas.
... $34 million to the United Nations population fund
... $412,000 to the Fish and Wildlife Service's National Conservation Training Center
... $765,000 to the Clark R. Bavin National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Oregon
... $11 million to assist the New England fishing industry
... $2.5 million to map coral reefs off Hawaii
... $1 million to convert subsidized housing to student housing in Baltimore
... $3 million to drill five wells in Santa Fe, N.M.
... requiring the Agriculture Department to fully fund a "Dog Dealers Task Force" to report violations in puppy breeding and sustaining research on tracheal mites and honeybees
... $2 million for more research on mad-cow disease
... $3 million for cattle-genome sequencing
... $50 million to renovate the National Animal Disease Laboratory in Ames, Iowa
... $19 million for animal health surveillance
... $21.6 million for pest detection"
... and more
If this is what they do when they show up for work, maybe they should go back to making waitress sandwiches at D.C. restaurants.
