THE $700 MILLION "Railroad to Nowhere" is this year's poster project for pork-barrel spending. The project was inserted by Mississippi Republican Sens. Thad Cochran and Trent Lott into the emergency spending bill that the Senate is debating this week, a measure that's supposed to pay for operations...
The Great Train Robbery, 2006
THE $700 MILLION "Railroad to Nowhere" is this year's poster project for pork-barrel spending. The project was inserted by Mississippi Republican Sens. Thad Cochran and Trent Lott into the emergency spending bill that the Senate is debating this week, a measure that's supposed to pay for operations...