Before answering the questions, read the background below.

1.  a) How much money did Senators add onto the "emergency" war spending bill for their own special projects?  b) How much did Senator Tom Coburn (Republican, Oklahoma) try to eliminate from that amount?

2.  a) How much money was Sen. Coburn actually able to cut from the pork?  b) Why isn't he discouraged by this amount?

3.  What was the result of a recent Wall Street Journal poll?

4.  Who/what is credited with making the issue of earmarks of such great concern to Americans?

5.  Describe the "bridge to nowhere" and the "train to nowhere" projects.

6.  Senator Coburn is a conservative.  How is he appealing to liberal senators?

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7.  To read about specific wasteful government spending, go to PorkBusters.org.  Then to write to your senators to ask them to cut pork, go to Senate.gov.