Dec. 2, 2015
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) today released a video announcing that he will release Wastebook: The Farce Awakens on Tuesday, Dec. 8. Flake’s report – the latest in the franchise begun by retired U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) – will feature over 100 examples of wasteful federal spending including a taxpayer-funded study of sheep in microgravity, beer as foreign food-aid, a virtual haunted house and an experiment involving a monkey in a hamster ball on treadmill.
The video can be viewed here.
Wastebook will be Flake’s fourth oversight report in a year. In Nov. 2015, he joined U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to release Tackling Paid Patriotism, a report on their joint investigation into taxpayer-funded payments by the Department of Defense to professional sports teams for patriotic displays honoring the U.S. military.
In June 2015, Flake responded to calls for a return to the practice of congressional earmarking by releasing Jurassic Pork, a report highlighting the continued cost of pork projects in the post-earmark-ban era.
In Dec. 2014, Flake published the Science of Splurging, a report highlighting more than a dozen examples of wasteful and egregious spending by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Since June 2014, Flake has regularly released PorkChops, a series highlighting wasteful and egregious federal spending.
While serving in the House, Flake established the Egregious Earmark of the Week series, which ran from 2003 until 2010, after Congress enacted a self-imposed moratorium on congressional earmarks.
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