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Congress should eliminate the Agriculture Department's Market Access Program, which spends $175.6 million a year to no good purpose.
The Transportation Department will spend three billion dollars toward building a private high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and SoCal.
In 1983, the U.S. Army spent $61,650 printing color pamphlets describing the rules of the boys' game King of the Hill.
Los Angeles wants to spend $58 million for a three-mile bike path - and dog lovers are already lining up against it.
Reno, Nevada spent $70,000 printing a 4000-word poem - temporarily - on the city sidewalks, most of which are neglected.
The Essential Air Service costs $200 million a year and has long outlived its usefulness following airline deregulation.
Citizens Against Government Waste identified $287 million worth of duplicative federal commissions, all of it wasteful.
The General Services Administration (GSA) has tried to deal with unnecessary federal buildings since 1976. (It still faces that problem.)
The Pentagon, with a budget of $832 billion, once again failed an audit, the sixth such failure in as many years.
Florida prison officials spent $3.6 million of federal taxpayers' money to repair their roofs, but ignored inmates' needs.
