Inspired by the wasteful and sometimes silly spending he saw, Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin), in 1975 began giving out “Golden Fleece” awards to public officials for wasteful spending.
Proxmire gave the first award to the National Science Foundation for spending $84,000 on a study on love, commenting, “I believe that 200 million other Americans want to leave some things in life a mystery, and right on top of the things we don't want to know is why a man falls in love with a woman and vice versa.”
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