From the press office of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa):

“The decision by the Bureau of Prisons to completely remove pork from its menus was ham-handed at best. I appreciate the quick decision after my letter to the bureau to keep pork products on prison menus. That’s good news for the American economy. But, there are still questions about how the original determination was made and the cost of conducting the surveys. None of that’s been answered, and it ought to be. I look forward to receiving a response to my letter.”

After receiving questions from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the Bureau of Prisons has reversed its decision to remove pork from federal prison menus. In a letter yesterday to Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels, Grassley expressed concern about the lack of transparency used in the decision and the taxpayer dollars used to conduct surveys of prisoners’ food wishes.

-By coincidence, our friend who lives in Washington D.C. had sent us information on this from The Wshington Post via The News-Herald Virtual Newsroom.

With all the pork in Washington, you might think they’d be heavy on the hog.

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