Earmarks!!

This article talks about how Congress has approved 11 billion dollars in what they call earmarks for next year's budget.

Appropriations remember are how the government spends money. Earmarks (which some also consider "pork barrel spending") is money that is for a specific project in a representative or senator's home district or state. It is federal government money, but it only benefits that specific area.

11 billion is a reduction from last year's "earmarks".

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/71951-11-billion-in-disclosed-earmarks-expected-in-fiscal-year-2010