--$8 million to rehabilitate a "historic cafeteria building" in Oregon's Crater Lake National Park.

--$100 million in grants to study berries in Alaska, wine in Washington, hydroponic tomatoes in Ohio, and maple syrup in Vermont.

--$300,000 for a parking garage in Auburn, Maine.

--$25,000 for schools in Las Vegas to study the development of mariachi music.

--$300,000 to Missoula, Mont., for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

--$1.1 million for research into the development of baby food and other products made from salmon.

--$1 million to Texas for the World Birding Center.

--$250,000 to Nashville, Tenn., for the Country Music Hall of Fame.

--$100,000 to Punxsutawney, Pa., for a weather museum.

--Thousands of dollars to protect sunflowers in North Dakota.

--$2 million to buy a "presidential yacht."

--Alaska alone gets $950,000 for a recreation center, $150,000 for a botanical garden, $300,000 for a senior center, $1 million for housing upgrades, $900,000 for an aquarium, and $525,000 for a quarry upgrade. And that's no a complete list. Because of their powerful senator, whom no one else in the GOP will stand up to, the federal government spends $12,000 on every Alaskan, double the national average.