Less pork-barrel spending by Congress this year | csmonitor.com

Less pork-barrel spending by Congress this year csmonitor.com: "A moratorium on the insertion of pork-barrel projects into spending bills – declared by the new Congress – has slashed the amount of money for such earmarks by more than half. Citizens Against Government Waste reports $13.2 billion in pork-barrel spending for the current fiscal year, down from $29 billion in 2006. Congress approved 2,658 pork projects for this year, down from a record 13,997 in fiscal 2005."