Last year, Congress gave out $2.3 billion in pet projects for colleges and universities for research on subject many people would scratch their head at. In spite of recent calls by presidential hopeful John McCain and many others in Congress, last year's total exceeds the previous year's by $300 million. The largest single earmark went to the University of South Alabama which received $30 million for an engineering and science center.
Read about all of the earmarks at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/washington/24earmarks.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin
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