Stimulus spending in particular tends to fund pork barrel projects that Congress has been previously resisting.
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Many officials not only lavished spending on pork barrel projects, they lavished it on themselves.
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.
The political pork barrel is the dark side of that motive--using legal powers to enlist representatives to wrest money from others.
Can there be hope for a new beginning, without pork barrel politics?
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Presidential aides say the president is eager to use the line-item veto to target tax loopholes, special interest measures and pork barrel projects.
In addition, the president announced that he will veto any appropriations bill that does not include a 50% reduction in pork barrel spending.
"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.
This is partly due to a desire get their own back on Mr Yeltsin, who has humiliated the opposition leaders time and again with his use of presidential authority and the pork barrel.
"Barack Obama has requested the equivalent of one million dollars in new pork barrel spending for every working day he's been in the U.S. Senate, " McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds wrote in an e-mail to reporters.
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 we've been working to save money for our nation's future, the Republican majority in Congress has been focusing on ways to spend it, loading up the spending bill with record amounts of pork barrel spending, " Clinton said.
"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.
If Washington politicians could apply to productive proposals a fraction of the energy they expend in demagogic posturing and the pushing of pork barrel projects, we would deal our enemies and a goodly number of kleptocratic despots a gusher of hurt.
With all of these biases, input-output modeling is usually a tool for pork-barrel projects.
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It is a plan that's been put together without earmarks or the usual pork-barrel spending.
But this kind of pork-barrel profligacy has helped keep Japan mired in semirecession for a decade.
Less attractive (but effective) lubricants for democracy include patronage, pork-barrel spending and special-interest voting.
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Mr Medvedev oversees Mr Putin's so-called national projects, pork-barrel initiatives in health, education, housing and agriculture.
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