| PS 201 | Introduction to US Politics |
| Joseph Boland | Fall, 1998 |
Senator Robert Byrd, Pork-Meister(When Byrd became chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee in 1989, he vowed to steer $1 billion homeward. By 1992, he was already halfway there.) |
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| Committee | Bill | Amount |
| Transportation | Corridor G highway improvement project | $165,000,000.00 |
| Highway demonstration construction project for an FBI center | $12,300,000.00 | |
| Upgraded airport approach radar system | $14,000,000.00 | |
| Defense, Military Construction | Move CIA offices to Harpers Ferry, Prince William County, WV | $32,900,000.00 |
| Build and National Guard and reserve center | $9,600,000.00 | |
| House C-130 cargo airplanes at Martinsburg Air Force Base. | $25,100,000.00 | |
| Alter the operations center at the Naval Radio-Telescope Observatory | $5,400,000.00 | |
| Commerce, Justice, State | Develop and install an automated fingerprint id system for new FBI headquarters in Clarksburg | $48,000,000.00 |
| Agriculture | Study replacements for lime fertilizer | $600,000.00 |
| Funding of the Appalachian Export Center for Hardwoods | $750,000.00 | |
| Construction of the North and South Mill Creek Dam No. 7 | $9,000,000.00 | |
| Repair flood damage in Huntington area | $3,500,000.00 | |
| Treasury, Postal Service | Construction of a federal building and courthouse | $25,000,000.00 |
| Energy and Water | various | $88,400,000.00 |
| Interior | various | $20,700,000.00 |
| VA, HUD, Independent Agencies | various | $42,100,000.00 |
| Total | $502,350,000.00 | |
| from Morris P. Fiorina and Paul E. Peterson, The New American Democracy, pp350-351. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. | ||