Following The Pork
NASA OIG Audit of NASA’s Management and Funding of Fiscal Year 2006 Congressional Earmarks
“NASA’s FY 2006 budget of $1 6.6 billion included 199 earmarks with congressionally directed finding of $568.2 million’ or 3.4 percent of the Agency’s budget. The total cost of the 199 FY 2006 earmarks was $576.2 million, which included the $568.2 million in congressionally directed funding plus $8 million in Agency oversight and administration costs.”