Another week, another gigantic bill to go through from the Congress that spends your taxpayer dollars. 

This time it's a $410 billion plan that funds the government for the rest of this fiscal year, until September 30.

I'm trying to get a list of some of the transportation projects in this bill for you to look at.  The best part is the report language lists them in alphabetical order - not by state - and of course, it's not in a format that is easily reproduced on the net.

11th Street Revitalization Project, Canton, OH    $380,000
19th Avenue North Extension Project, Clinton, IA   $475,000
19th Street Extension·-Redmond to Deschutes Junction (between Redmond and Bend), OR   $570,000
24thSV23rd Ave Corridor Improvement, Council Bluffs, IA   $237,500
4-Laning of Baldwin Road to the 1-75 Interchange, Oakland County, MI   $237,500
4-Laning of Texas SH 24 (from 1-30 to the Oklahoma State Line), Paris, TX   $95,000
4-laning of US 20 from the Sac-Calhoun County, Iowa line to Moville, IA   $570,000
55th Street Extension, Rochester MN   $475,000
7th Road Extension, Marshall County, IN   $665,000
A-B Street Corridor Connector Project, WA   $1,900,000
Access Ramps and Widening of Latson Road, Livingston County, MI   $570,000
Advanced Bridge Safety Initiative, ME   $475,000
Alemedia Road (LA 50) Intersection Improvements, St. Charles Parish, LA   $285,000
Antelope Valley Transportation Improvements, Lincoln, NE   $570,000
Antonio Parkway Rehabilitation, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA   $95,000
Aten Road and Old County Road 111 Improvements, Imperial County, CA   $712,500
Atlantic Greenway Corridor Network, Miami Beach, FL   $570,000
Aurora Corridor Improvements· Phase 2, WA   $475,000
Avenue of the Arts Revitalization and Streetscaping Project, PA   $475,000
Barnes Crossing Road/Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge, MS   $475,000
Barranquitas South Bypass (from PR 156 to PR719),. Municipality of Barranquitas, PR   $95,000
Baton Rouge Riverfront Redevelopment Transportatien Improvements, LA   $950,000
Belleview Bypass and Baseline Road, Marion Count} FL   $475,000
Bellmawr Borough/Route 42 Culvert Replacement Preject, NJ   $2,850,000
Bethlehem Pike Roadway and Streetscape Improvements, Springfield Township, PA   $475,000

So most of you will look at that and be outraged.

But there will be some who might say, wait that (fill in the blank) project in my home town is something that needs to be done.

It is pork to you.  It's a needed project to someone else.

That's why the pork survives.