12. President Bush will request $41.3 billion in the fiscal 2004 budget, which he will submit next week, to fund domestic homeland security efforts, a U.S. official said on Thursday.

16. As a general principle, the Federal government should bail out private companies or industries of private companies that encounter sudden and unexpected business downturns

17. U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK as of 05 Nov 2003 The estimated population of the United States is 292,443,881 Each citizen's share of this debt is $23,466.39. The National Debt has increased an average of 11.58 billion per day since September 30, 2002!

18. Deficit for 1988 - $115,900,000,000.00 Deficit for 1996 - $111,000,000,000.00 Deficit for 1997 - $113,700,000,000.00 Deficit for 1998 - $169,000,000,000.00 Deficit for 1999 - $265,000,000,000.00 Deficit for 2000 - $375,700,000,000.00 Deficit for 2002 - $435,000,000,000.00

70. ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO DETERMINE WHTHER OR NOT A POLICY IS WORKING AS INTENDED WHAT ARE SOME OF THOSE ACTIVITIES?

90. “The members [of Congress] …. make a compact by which each aids the other. This is logrolling.”

93. The term "pork barrel" stems back to the early 1800s when the popular meat was packed that way, and hungry farm hands reached in for slabs of salt pork. In 1879, it was adopted as political slang to mean goodies for the local district paid for by the taxpayers at large.

94. $107,000 to study the sex life of the Japanese quail. $1.2 million to study the breeding habits of the woodchuck. $150,000 to study the Hatfield- McCoy feud. $84,000 to find out why people fall in love. $1 million to study why people don't ride bikes to work. 2003 MOST ABSURD PORK

95.  $19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence.  $144,000 to see if pigeons follow human economic laws.  Funds to study the cause of rudeness on tennis courts and examine smiling patterns in bowling alleys.  $219,000 to teach college students how to watch television.  $2 million to construct an ancient Hawaiian canoe.

96. $20 million for a demonstration project to build wooden bridges. $160,000 to study if you can hex an opponent by drawing an X on his chest. $800,000 for a restroom on Mt. McKinley. $100,000 to study how to avoid falling spacecraft. $16,000 study of the the komungo, a Korean instrument.

97. $1 million to preserve a sewer in Trenton, NJ, as a historic monument. $6,000 for a document on Worcestershire sauce. $10,000 to study the effect of naval communications on a bull's potency. $100,000 to research soybean- based ink.

98. $1 million for a Seafood Consumer Center. $57,000 spent by the Executive Branch for gold-embossed playing cards on Air Force Two. Total ABSURD PORK from previous pages: $ 45,980,000

113. OrganizationAmount 1Philip Morris$3,817,71421%79% 2US Smokeless Tobacco$1,411,52913%87% 3RJ Reynolds Tobacco$1,077,85011%89% 4 Brown & Williamson Tobacco $672,6088%92% 5Vector Group$628,76288%12% 6Lorillard Tobacco$528,4637%93% 7Conwood Co$233,9804%96% 8Swisher International$208,35038%62% 9General Cigar Holdings$112,05026%74% 10Cigar Assn of America$77,8609%91%

114. OrganizationAmount 1 Environmental Litigation Group $58,000100%0% 2Global Green USA$29,250100%0% 3Save Our Everglades$27,50098%2% 4Sierra Club$14,717100%0% 5 Natural Resources Defense Council $11,75066%34% 6Green Worlds Coalition Fund$9,5005%95% 7 League of Conservation Voters $6,50085%15%