Congress ought to investigate itself and I hope they are embarrassed and ashamed of how much money they waste.

Annie Kate
Birmingham AL

Please Anderson, no more Keeping Them Honest.
You’re too clever for this. You don’t need a catchphrase !

Perhaps he mixed up the Coconut Rd in Florida with the needed road to the airport in Ketchikan, AK. so everone would not have to swim tho ice cold water to catch a plane. Some people keep saying this bridge/road is a road/bridge to nowhere in Alaska.

After Katrina they even rebuilt the road./bridge to the casino in New Orleans. After all, gotta keep those gamblers happy.

I think this government is on that same road. The road to no where.

WHAT??? I just caught the end of the $10,000,000 interchange addition to the Transportation legislation story. What the hell is going on in Washington? Forget the investigations. Lets all just vote the idiots out! Don Young…start packing and looking for a job. Lets also look into haulting all benefits for life for some of these yahoos. These are critical times. If some of the members of Congress have the nerve to actually try to pass something like this off, on the sly, they should be fired without any kind of benefits what so ever.

MOST IN CONGRESS who push for add-ons that cost us taxpayers billion$ in our hard-earned money are democrats. most in congress who want to end earmarks are republicans. so which way are you voting?

I get sick of the national media- that is suppose to be people with intelligence that continue to mis-state the “bridge to nowhere”- as somewhere in the frozen north- with about a minute of research those young people would know - and probably do know- ( but does ot make as good a story ) it is a much needed bridge to the airport in Ketchikan Alaska- if one of those fast paced news folks ended up at the airport- after the last ferry left- would think no where- or better yet- miss their plane due to the ferry leaving without them. Or get stuck due to weather on either side- they would not think it was a “bridge to no where”- an airport is certainly “somewhere”.

An Alaskan-non-Ketchikan Resident- that has been stuck- Ruth

I wonder what “gift” Mr Young received for giving Florida such a pretty present. Beware of pork in a barrel, it’s usually bound with strings.

Lorie Ann, Buellton, Calif.

Government is in some trouble

A good expose of questionable back room dealings. Although I believe most Washington activity is legitimate and most legislators are honest public servants, the system allows insane spending to continue. Of course these tiny amounts are not the key problem, rather massive social welfare and military budgets in which a million bridge fiascos are buried every year.

SHAME ON CNGRESS!

“Ear marks”, “riders”, and other tactics used in Congress to get things enacted which would not otherwise pass are a long and disgusting tradition. If the average American understood about these things, they would see their past and present Congressmen and Presidents in very different light.

These tactics need to be banned, pure and simple.

THIS 10 MILLION DOLLAR “GIFT” THAT NOBODY NEEDS OR MANTS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A CONGRESSMAN WHO DOES SOMETHING STUPID AND THEN DENIES OR BLAMES IT ON SOMEONE ELSE. THE SO-CALLED “EARMARKS” PROBLEM IS YET TO BE SOLVED WHERE CONGRESSMEN INSERT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF “EARMARKS” (ADDITIONAL MONEY) INTO BILLS ABOUT TO BE PASSED IN CONGRESS FOR THEIR HOME STATE
CONSTITUENTS IN ORDER TO GET RE-ELECTED.. MOST OF OUR CONGRESSMEN START RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION AS SOON AS THEY GET ELECTED. VERY FEW ELECT TO LEAVE CONGRESS
AFTER JUST A FEW TERMS DISGUSTED WITH FELLOW CONGRESSMEN WHO ARE THERE TO GET EVERYTHING THEY CAN GET FOR THEMSELVES.. IS IT ANY WONDER THAT POLLS
NOW SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE’S JOB APPROVAL RATING
IS ONLY 22% WHICH IS EVEN LOWER THAN PREZ. BUSH?
WE HAVE A SPEAKER PELOSI WHO HAS ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING AND WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE A LEADER, BUT WHO
HAS BEEN POKING HER NOSE INTO THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION CAMPAIGN INSTEAD OF MINDING HER BUSINESS.
THE 22% APPROVAL RATING OF CONGRESS BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS PELOSI’S RATING AS A SPEAKER.