Here’s the bacon that United States Senator Dick Durbin brought him in this year’s budget from the Health and Human Services and Labor budgets.

I found it with the help of Citizens for Common Sense, which, amazingly enough, has an easier place to find it than Congress.

Below are Durbin’s projects. As I have previously explained, projects with both Durbin’s name and a U.S. Representative’s name I have listed under the representative’s name. There is no way to tell who should be credited with those projects. There are a number of them.

• HHS Access Community Health Network, Chicago, IL, for $476,000 Durbin – Access Community Health Network, Chicago, IL, for Construction at Holy Cross Hospital
• HHS Health Resources and Services Administration $285,500 Durbin – Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, for Construction
• HHS Health Resources and Services Administration $381,000 Durbin – Lawndale Christian Health Center, Chicago, IL, for Construction and Equipment
• HHS Health Resources and Services Administration $381,000 Durbin – Memorial Hospital, Carthage, IL, for Equipment
• HHS Health Resources and Services Administration $190,000 Durbin – Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana, IL, for Construction, Renovation and Equipment
• HHS Health Resources and Services Administration $285,500 Durbin – Resurrection Health Care, Oak Park, IL, to Expand Nursing Programs
• HHS Health Resources and Services Administration $285,000 Durbin – Riverside Healthcare Center for a Patient Safety Program, including Equipment
• HHS Health Resources and Services Administration $476,000 Durbin – Sinai Health System, Chicago, IL, for Equipment
• HHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration $476,000 Durbin – Prairie Center Health Systems, Urbana, IL, for Outpatient and Inpatient Detoxification Services for Meth-Addicted Patients
• Labor Employment & Training Administration $238,000 Durbin – Goodwill Industries Inc, Chicago, IL, to Expand Goodwill Works Initiative

= = = = =The AP article you see indicates the bill was passed Tuesday. Despite his protestations against pork during the campaign, he announced he signed it yesterday.

Now he wants “guidelines” on member earmarks.

I believe this falls into the category of “closing the door after the horse has left the barn.”