Critics See 'Pork' in Budget Items Earmarked for Higher Education
Federal taxpayers will spend $2 million in fiscal 1999 to archive former Sen. Bob Dole's papers at the University of Kansas, and that, says one budget watchdog, is an example of higher education "pork."
The item is one of 26 projects at colleges and universities that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., identified on his 10th annual "list of objectionable provisions," which was released on the World Wide Web in October. Mr. McCain considers such projects dubious because they have not been justified through the usual appropriations process.
Among the items of alleged budgetary pork on Mr. McCain's list were appropriations that essentially thwarted any attempt at competitive funding by directing federal dollars to a specific locality or research facility. Others were added to the budget during a House-Senate conference hearing but never debated on either the...
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