the Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex; the Robert C. Byrd Library; and the Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource

Center; the Robert C. Byrd Rural Health Center.” This list does not include government-funded projects in West

Virginia that were not named after Byrd. Of course, we would have to analyze each of these expenditures in detail to

figure out whether we should treat them as pork-barrel spending or whether they provide widespread benefits that

reach beyond West Virginia. At least some of them, or a portion of them, certainly would fall into that category.

Because there are currently no term limits for Congressional representatives, those who have been in office longer

generally have more power to enact pork-barrel projects.

The amount that government spends on individual pork-barrel projects is small, but many small projects can

add up to a substantial total. A nonprofit watchdog organization, called Citizens against Government Waste,
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