In 1977, Sen. William Proxmire gave the National Endowment for the Arts a Golden Fleece Award for spending $6,025 — $29,456 in 2022 dollars — for an artist to film the throwing of crepe paper and burning gases out of an airplane.
Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, gave awards to wasteful and nonsensical spending, eventually handing out 168 Golden Fleece Awards between 1975 and 1988.
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