
(Washington, DC) - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) August Porker of the Month for sponsoring legislation that could give federal funding to his daughter's nonprofit organization, which promotes overseas wildlife protection for cheetahs. According to a July 26, 2010 article in the Lexington Herald-Leader, "US Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Somerset, is sponsoring a bill to give $5 million a year to conservation groups that work overseas on behalf of endangered 'great cats and rare canids,' such as cheetahs, lions and Ethiopian wolves. One group interested in applying, should Rogers' bill become law, is the Namibia-based Cheetah Conservation Fund. Its grants administrator, Allison Rogers, is the congressman's daughter." "Americans are being forced to tighten their belts while the economy is limping along, but that doesn't deter porkers in Congress, like Rep. Rogers, who think nothing of using the hard-earned tax dollars of the US Treasury to subsidize family members," said CAGW President Tom Schatz. "Members of Congress should go out of their way to ensure that their actions in Congress never appear to be nepotistic. Rep. Rogers and members like him continue to behave as though the US Treasury is their own personal piggy bank." Rep. Rogers has claimed there is no conflict of interest. Unfortunately, the bill that Rep. Rogers' is sponsoring is narrow enough in scope that his support seems more than coincidental. "Taxpayers are smarter than <b>...</b>
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