Stimulus spending in particular tends to fund pork barrel projects that Congress has been previously resisting.
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Republicans are skeptical, especially about government loan guarantees, pork barrel projects and mandating higher priced union labor.
It started in 2002, he says, when he got a tip about a huge pork barrel project.
An oil gusher could also sharpen Brazil's already voracious appetite for the politics of the pork barrel.
Look at the highway bill that had 3, 000 pork barrel projects on it including bridges to nowhere in Alaska.
White House officials portrayed the budget as an attack on "pork barrel" projects.
Finally, McCain said it would be "unacceptable" for Congress to add earmarks and so-called pork barrel legislation to this plan.
McCain favors less government spending, often chastising congressional colleagues for pork barrel earmarks and criticizing the budget process that allows them.
"I know he does have a great record for not being a pork barrel spending freak like some of the other people in the Senate and the House, " he said.
While many stimulus projects have come under fire as pork barrel spending, backers of the nets program say it is a model for helping those battered by the economic downturn while completing needed public works.
In a bi-partisan display of pork barrel politics, Congressional officials in Northwest salmon country are making it clear that they will pull out all stops to block the FDA from issuing a final approval letter.
"While my heart goes out to the victims of Hurricane Sandy, it is unacceptable for Congress to use this disaster as a justification for passing a bill chock-full of pork barrel spending, " Georgia Republican Paul Broun said on Monday.
It is a plan that's been put together without earmarks or the usual pork-barrel spending.
He has a reputation for honesty and an unbending refusal to countenance corruption or pork-barrel politics.
Yet Mr Fukuda's survival hangs on people taking seriously his promise to face down pork-barrel interests.
The other problem is a state bloated by pork-barrel spending and hampered by a creaky tax system.
Mr Mori, a pork-barrel politician, is unlikely to back full-scale bank reform in his present, vulnerable state.
Mr Johnson hopes the voters will remember their liking for pork-barrel spending (a universal preference, but understandable in a poor state).
Congressmen spend their time in office consolidating these political dynasties by doling out jobs, favours and pork-barrel funds to their constituents.
On Thursday, the company announced a partnership with the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit group that exposes legislative issues such as pork-barrel spending.
Those were mostly pork-barrel projects inserted under the heading of preventive care.
Any big public project in Brazil provides opportunities for expensive pork-barrel politics in a legislature that can make high drama out of even routine spending bills.
Does the prime minister share my concern that hard-working families in Wales are being used in order to fund the Labour party's pork-barrel policy in Cardiff Bay?
They would rather he wait to veto a more blatant piece of pork-barrel legislation that's likely to be included in separate spending bills in the fall.
Jim DeMint, a senator from South Carolina, wants his colleagues to adopt a voluntary ban on earmarks, a form of pork-barrel spending particularly reviled by fiscal hawks.
His position required Maehara to confront the vested local government and public works interest groups for on-going or planned pork-barrel public works projects, including some notoriously wasteful and unnecessary dams.
As it was, and given the amount of pork-barrel spending deals needed to pass the bill, public acceptance of the ACA collapsed as more people learned what was in it.
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