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...What activities were you involved in as an undergraduate. As most Harvard undergrads, I kept busy: I was the founder of 5 clubs and 2 student publications, published a book, was the captain of 3 varsity sports teams, briefly served as President of a small developing nation my junior year, started a hedge fund, and composed symphonies on weekends...
...Congressional Pig Book Summary Citizens Against Government Waste 58 pages...
Since 1991, the Citizens Against Government Waste, a non-partisan, non-profit group in Washington D.C., has been publishing an annual list of pork-barrel projects in an effort to shame politicians into curbing their earmark requests. It hasn't worked. This year's Pig Book outlines $19.6 billion in pork barrel projects that will fund more than 10,000 projects in the 2009 fiscal year. (The dollar amount is 14% higher than the previous year, although the raw number of projects dropped 12.5%.) The thing about earmarks is that they make a politician popular at home, but unpopular...
...Projects that make it into CAGW's Pig Book must fulfill one or more of the following criteria: • Requested only by the House or Senate • Not specifically authorized by a piece of legislation • Not competitively awarded based on a bidding process • Not requested by the President • Greatly exceed the President's budget request or the previous year's funding • Not the subject of congressional hearings • Serves only a local need or special interest...
...spending. CAGW argues that lawmakers circumvent the budget allocation process by sneaking funding for hometown projects into large appropriations bills. This is not entirely untrue, but without investigating the merits of each project - and instead condemning them all in bulk - it's a little hard to take the Pig Book at face value. Still, the book and CAGW's online database are good resources for constituents who want to find out which projects in their communities got the attention of their representatives in Washington...