Theft at the Public Till
• $2 million to construct an ancient Hawaiian canoe. • $350,000 to renovate the House Beauty Salon. • $6 million to upgrade the two-block-long Senate subway. • $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. • $250,000 to study TV lighting in the Senate meeting rooms. • $800,000 for a restroom on Mt. McKinley. • $100,000 to study how to avoid falling spacecraft. • $100,000 to research soybean-based ink. • $1 million for a Seafood Consumer Center. • $130,000 for a Congressional video-conferencing project. • $16,000 to study the operation of a Korean stringed instrument. • $1 million to preserve a Trenton, New Jersey, sewer as a historic monument. • $6000 for a document on Worcestershire sauce. • $10,000 to study the effect of naval communications on a bull's potency. • $33 million to pump sand onto the private beaches of Miami hotels. • $10 million to a small Pennsylvania college to study separation stress in military families. • $57,000 for gold embossed playing cards on Air Force Two. • $60,000 Belgian endive research study for the University of Massachusetts. • $6.4 million for a Bavarian ski resort in Kellogg, Idaho. • $13 million to repair a privately owned dam in South Carolina. • $3.1 million to convert a ferry boat into a crab restaurant in Baltimore. • $43 million for Steamtrain, U.S.A. to recreate a railroad yard of old. • $107,000 to study the sex life of the Japanese quail. • $4.3 million for a privately owned museum in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. • $11 million for a private pleasure boat harbor in Cleveland.
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