I thought some of these budget items might interest you...
Quote:$725,000
Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
$200,000
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio
$1,800,000
2003 Women’s World Cup Tournament
$6,000,000
Police Athletic League
$250,000
Call Me Mister program, Clemson University
$500,000
New England Amer-I-Can Program
$150,000
Rock School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
$16,000
National Distance Running Hall of Fame, Utica, New York
$225,000
Hawaii statehood celebration
$325,000
Construction of a swimming pool in Salinas, California
$100,000
History competition during National History Day in Iowa
$175,000
Therapeutic Horse man ship center, Hoffman Homes for Youth, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
$315,000
Formosan Subterranean Termite research
$100,000
Public service recognition week
$50,000
Father Maloney’s Boy’s Haven, Louisville, Kentucky
$75,000
Vintage Radio Programs and Jazz Museum, East Stroudsburg University
$100,000
Kids Rock Free educational program, Fender Museum of the Arts Foundation, Corona, California
$100,000
Renovation of the historic Coca-Cola building in Macon, Georgia
$100,000
Construction of an intergenerational daycare center in San Fernando Valley, California
$372,000
B&O Railroad Museum emergency restoration, Baltimore, Maryland
$75,000
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Washington, DC
$225,000
Construction of Blue-Gray Civil War Theme Park, Kentucky
$75,000
North Pole Transit System JARC Program, Alaska
$250,000
Feasibility study of establishing Suffolk (Virginia) Workforce Development Center
$350,000
Construction for a folk cultural center in Pinellas County, Florida
$400,000
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
$90,000
Olive fruitfly research
$150,000
Traffic light, Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District, New York
$100,000
People for People, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
$100,000
Amphitheater construction, North Star Productions, Inc., Bracken County, Kentucky
$2,000,000
First Tee program
$150,000
Regional Youth Baseball Complex Lancaster, California
$100,000
John Singelton Mosby Museum Foundation in Warrenton, Virginia
$180,000
Seafood waste research, Fairbanks, Alaska
$400,000
Walla Walla Public Schools, Walla Walla, Washington
$900,000
Kincaid Park Trail Connection, Alaska
$20,000
Southern Star Development Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky
$85,000
Comprehensive Transportation Plan for Lewisburg, West Virginia
$100,000
Norman Hall project, University of Florida
$225,000
Museum of Aviation Foundation Inc, Warner Robins, Georgia
$250,000
Lou Frey Institute of Politics, University of Central Florida
$270,000
Sustainable olive production
$5,000,000
Kennedy Center Potomac River Pedestrian and Bike Path
$100,000
National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
$200,000
Cedar glades research
$250,000
Theater construction, Studio for the Arts, Pocahontas, Arkansas
$2,000,000
Intermodal Transload Facility, Quincy, Washington
$110,000
Construction of a dental clinic in Bassfield, Mississippi
$220,000
New Mexico Retail Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico
$400,000
Davenport Music History Museum, Davenport, Iowa
$3,000,000
US 12 Widening, Wallula Junction to Walla Walla, Washington
$25,000
Alex Haley House Museum, Henning, Tennessee
$225,000
Rialto Square Theater, Joliet, Illinois
$5,000,000
Project SOCRATES
$90,000
Rabbit Run Community Arts Association, Madison, Ohio
$150,000
Renovation of Farmers market, Dallas, Texas
$200,000
Merit School of Music’s after school program
$200,000
Advanced Traffic Analysis Center, North Dakota
$250,000
Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
$400,000
National Center for American Revolution, Wayne, Pennsylvania
$1,000,000
Hal Rogers Parkway, Kentucky
$1,000,000
Ship Creek Improvements, Alaska
$2,000,000
I-SAFE America
$50,000
National Canal Museum, Easton, Pennsylvania
$100,000
Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea
$200,000
Renovation of First National Bank Building, Greenfield, Massachusetts
$250,000
Martha’s Village and Kitchen, Indio, California
$270,000
Potato storage
$1,000,000
Transylvania Community Hospital, Brevard, North Carolina
$6,000,000
Treasure Island Bridge
$80,000
Hot Springs Bike Trail, Arkansas
$90,000
Karnal bunt research, Manhattan, Kansas
$175,000
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
$210,000
O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, Virginia
$250,000
James S. Taylor Memorial Home, Louisville, Kentucky
$250,000
Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago, Illinois
$500,000
Traffic Signal Replacement Program, New Rochelle, New York
$2,000,000
Parents Anonymous
$100,000
"Servicing our Youth"
$275,000
Refurbishment of the Coach George E. Ford Center, Powder Springs, Georgia
$150,000
Piper’s Opera House Programs, Inc., Virginia City, Nevada
$270,000
U.S. Vegetable Lab
$1,250,000
US-2, Dover Bridge, Bonner County, Idaho
$25,000
Capitol Area Boy Scouts
$113,000
Healing Place, Louisville, Kentucky
$500,000
Jim Thorpe Bridge Renovation Project, Pennsylvania
$600,000
Web Wise Kids
$800,000
Mammoth Lakes Bus Purchase, California
$100,000
Renovate the Jamestown (Ohio) Opera House
$400,000
Ed Roberts Campus transit center, California
$750,000
The Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing & Able program
$160,000
Grapevine Bus Purchase, Texas
$500,000
Round Rock Higher Education Center, Southwest Texas State University
$1,400,000
Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona
$25,000
Transylvania County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Citizens Observer Patrol and Education Team
$200,000
Chaldean Community Culture Center, West Bloomfield, Michigan
$300,000
Milwaukee Summer Stars
$450,000
Johnny Appleseed Heritage Center, Inc., Ashland County, Ohio
$750,000
Intelligent Transportation Systems, Wichita Transit Authority
$1,500,000
Operation Streetsweeper
$125,000
Planning for new route over Cape Fear River, North Carolina
$300,000
Omnitrans—Paratransit Vehicles, California
$500,000
Bike path, St. Petersburg, Florida
$1,000,000
WestStart Vehicular Flywheel Project, Washington
$15,000
Pines of Peace, Inc., Ontario, New York
$75,000
U.S. Dream Academy, Inc., Columbia, Maryland
$200,000
Oneont Bus Replacement, New York
$450,000
Trout Genome Mapping
$500,000
LOVE Social Services, Fairbanks, Alaska
$750,000
Broken Bow rail spur, Oklahoma
$2,000,000
Tools for Tolerance program, California
$150,000
National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation
$1,000,000
DelTrac Statewide Integration, Delaware
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(...thinks some of those are just retarded.)