Some budget items from 1991:

• $300,000 to the National Peanut Lab.
• $550,000 for Monk seal research.
• $800,000 for research on geese.
• $94,000 for apple research.
• $1.8 million for berry research.
• $1.7 million for potato research, plus $250,000 to study North Dakota potatoes.
• $1.3 million for sweet potato research.
• $1.7 million for beef research.
• $140,000 for research on swine.
• $2.8 million for peach research, plus $192,000 to study South Carolina peaches.
• $173,000 to study Malaysian family economics.
• $293,000 to study Swedish twins.
• $467,000 to study Asians.
• $132,000 to study "facial reactions to stimuli."
• $150,000 to study recyclable fishing nets.
• $500,000 to study long distance communication in Kentucky.
• $759,000 to the Rice Research Center.
• $5 million for the "American Salmon Summit."
• $1.5 million for the Center for Pacific Rim Studies.
• $1.8 million (1991) and $1.5 million (1992) to the National Pig Research Facility.
• $3 billion to build a rocket plant that NASA does not want.
• $70,000 for HUD television studios that no one uses.
• $3.5 million for a nuclear weapons contractor luxury fund.
• $350,000 for the House beauty salon.
• $20 million to beautify stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas.
• $116 million to cut timber to be sold at a loss.
• $2.5 million (1991) and $800,000 (1992) for Florida bike paths.
• $800,000 for North Dakota highway beatification.
• $10 million for a second monument to a dead president who requested that no monuments ever be erected in his honor.
• $3.5 million for a second visitor center for the Lyndon B. Johnson Historic Park.
• $2 million for two theater restorations in Savannah, Georgia.
• $2 million for two marketplace restorations in Toledo, Ohio.
• $3,000 reimbursed to the office of Joe Kennedy (D-MA) by the House Post Office even though the mail he sent out cost his office nothing.
• $2 million to renovate the seating area for House members in the Congressional restaurant, where full dinners cost as little as $5.
• $250,000 to study the best position for TV lighting in the senate meeting rooms.
• $201,000 to refurbish 13 buildings at Fort Knox, Kentucky, that had already been slated for demolition.
• $58,276 to supply Jamaican farmers with a machine that sorts red peas, which don't grow in Jamaica.
• $127 million for grain silos and water-pumping stations in Egypt, where there is not enough electrical capacity to run them.
• $15 million to Dartmouth College as part of a job-creation scheme. 39 jobs were "created" at a cost of $384,615 apiece.
• $3 billion for the Community Development Block Program—the anti-poverty program through which 56 of the 60 wealthiest communities received taxpayer money, including Palm Springs, Newport Beach, and Palo Alto.
• $1.1 million to Tyson Chicken to advertise overseas.
• $5 million to Gallo Wines to advertise overseas.
• $3 million to Pillsbury to advertise overseas.
• $10 million to Sunkist to advertise overseas.
• $3.1 million to advertise Kentucky bourbon overseas.
• $394,000 to advertise American bull semen overseas.

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