WASHINGTON ( CNN ) -- Listen closely and you 'll hear squeals of disgust from a watchdog group tracking congressional pork in the nation 's capital . Research on swine odor is one of the projects listed in the `` Pig Book , '' released Tuesday . Citizens Against Government Waste is out with its annual `` Pig Book '' -- a list of lawmakers whom the group considers the most egregious porkers , members of the House and Senate who use the earmarking process to funnel money to projects on their home turf . Fittingly perhaps , the list includes nearly $ 1.8 million for swine odor and manure management research in Iowa . `` In fiscal year 2009 , Congress stuffed 10,160 projects into the 12 appropriations bills worth $ 19.6 billion , '' the group said in a report released Tuesday . The amount marks a 14 percent increase over 2008 . The `` Pig Book '' also names dozens of what it considers the most blatant examples of pork-barrel spending . See a list of those projects » `` Taxpayers are ready to revolt , '' said Tom Schatz , the organization 's president . `` Despite repeated claims by members of Congress that earmarks have been reduced , the Pig Book belies that claim . '' Included in the funding is $ 3.8 million for the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy -- a group dedicated to finding a new use for the stadium that the Detroit Tigers baseball team played in from 1896 through 1999 . An additional $ 1.9 million went to the Pleasure Beach water taxi service project in Bridgeport , Connecticut , requested by then-Rep. Chris Shays . A bridge fire more than a decade ago means beach-goers have to travel a couple of extra miles to get to the beach . Alaska led the nation in pork per capita , at $ 322 a person . At the bottom of the list was Arizona , with less than $ 12 per resident . Sen. John McCain does not request earmarks for his home state . See where each state ranks » . Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran , the ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee , topped the list of senators receiving earmarks , with a total of $ 653 million . The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee , Sen. Daniel Inouye , D-Hawaii , was second , with $ 445 million . Hawaii Reps. Neil Abercrombie and Mazie Hirono , both Democrats , topped the list for earmarks in the House of Representatives . Abercrombie 's pet projects received a total of almost $ 257 million ; Hirono 's received almost $ 153 million . Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nevada , was granted the organization 's so-called `` Porkasaurus '' award for earmarking $ 143,000 for the Las Vegas Natural History Museum . `` Sen. Reid is fond of saying that earmarks have been around since we were a country . Now he must be blaming it on the dinosaurs , '' Schatz said . Some recipients of the earmarks disagreed with the characterization of their projects as `` pork . '' Kathleen Wendler , a member of the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy 's board of directors , argued that the $ 3.8 million dedicated to the old ballpark was critical to revitalizing the surrounding Detroit neighborhood . The money `` is not pork at all , '' she said . The ballpark , if properly utilized , can be an `` economic development generator for the local business district . This project will help draw younger people into the neighborhood . It will help save the neighborhood in the long run . '' To qualify for the `` Pig Book , '' a project must meet at least one of these standards : It was requested by only one chamber of Congress ; was not specifically authorized ; was not competitively awarded ; was not requested by the president ; greatly exceeded the president 's budget request or the previous year 's funding ; was not the subject of congressional hearings ; or served only a local or special interest . -- CNN 's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report .
NEW : Senate Appropriations Committee leaders from both parties top earmarks list . NEW : Some recipients of earmark funds say their projects are not pork at all . Watchdog group releases its annual list of lawmakers it considers the worst porkers . Citizens Against Government Waste has criteria for citing projects as pork .