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- n. acquisition of government money for benefits to a specific locale
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“The 2,000 pages or so of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act were the result of all-too familiar lobbying, pork-barreling and short-term politicking, fudging key reforms and pushing many decisions off to regulators; the only winners will be the lawyers who have to figure out what it all means.”
“Outraged Congresspersons from the Great State of Boeing — er, Washington — cloaked themselves in the American flag as cover for their pork-barreling.”
“There would be fits and starts, lots of high-toned pork-barreling, indirection, and bureaucratic tussling, as well as moments of true courage.”
“We engaged in the earmarking and pork-barreling, which is corruption.”
“They think pork-barreling is their right, ... things like that. ”
“I'm not sure all of the "buy in Canada" provisions can be attributed solely to pork-barreling.”
Conservative government contract-awarding blues: the Coast Guard case
“It was none other than Ted Stevens (joined by fellow pork-barreling Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va.)”
“For starters how about congress doing less earmarking and pork-barreling and putting that money back into the SS fund?”
Obama "does not believe it is necessary or fair to hardworking seniors to raise the retirement age."
“What's really going on is a familiar scrum for federal cash, with politicians from Washington and Kansas using nationalism as cover for their pork-barreling.”
“THOMPSON: And what I remember most about those days is sitting next to John on the Senate floor as he led battle after battle to change the acrimonious, pork-barreling, self-serving ways of Washington.”
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