Dan Coats: “I am once again on the floor for my 37th edition of ``Waste of the Week'' speech, where I disclose wasteful spending…”

“I am once again on the floor for my 37th edition of ``Waste of the Week'' speech, where I disclose wasteful spending, fraud, and abuse of taxpayers' dollars. It seems it is never ending because after 37 weeks I feel as if I am just scratching the surface. Last week, as some will remember, I talked about how the National Science Foundation spent $331,000 of hard-earned tax dollars by giving a grant to researchers to study whether or not being ``hangry'' is a real thing. Most people have not heard about the word ``hangry.'' Last week I suppose people ran to the dictionary to see what the description was. ``Hangry''--I think among the younger people--means that you are both hungry and angry, and you are angrier than you normally would be in a situation because you are hungry. I wasn't hungry last week when I was talking about ``hangry,'' but I was angry. I was angry over the fact that $331,000 of taxpayers' money was being used to offer a grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether this exists. They came up with this crazy situation of giving voodoo dolls to husbands and wives. Every time a husband was angry with his wife, he would take a pin and stick it into the voodoo doll or if she was angry with him, she would take a pin and stick it into the voodoo doll. I don't know who ended up with the most pins. Probably the wife had more pins in the voodoo doll than the husband did.…”