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Pork barrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pork barrel is a derogatory term referring to appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative's district. The usage origin...
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Successful promotion of such pork-barrel legislation (often through skillful logrolling) is very likely to get the legislator re-elected by his constituents.
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not the subject of congressional hearings; or serves only a local or special interest. In short, pork-barreling is the appropriation of money in circumvention of established budgetary procedures.
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CAGW is the source for information about pork-barrel spending. Since 1991, the annual Congressional Pig Book has provided the authoritative list of pork in the federal budget. ... Pork Trends, 1991 - 2009* Quick Facts:
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Pork barrelling requires one of the following to be an effective vote-buying strategy. ... There must be ways of subsidizing in which the special interest group knows they have received the benefit, but in which the rest of the population don't know that the subsidization has been given (or at least how much subsidization...
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"Pork barrel" came into use as a political term in the post-Civil War era. It recalls the practice of plantation owners who would often hand out rations of salt pork to their slaves, distributing them from wooden barrels.
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"Pork barrel" came into use as a political term in the post-Civil War era. It comes from the plantation practice of distributing rations of salt pork to slaves from wooden barrels. ... When used to describe a bill, it implies the legislation is loaded with special projects for Members of Congress to distribute to...
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The term "pork barrel" stems back to the early 1800s when the popular meat was packed that way, and hungry farm hands reached in for slabs of salt pork. In 1879, it was adopted as political slang to mean goodies for the local district paid for by the taxpayers at large.
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It's actually worse than we thought in our report the other day about earmarks in the state budget to establish new law schools at SUNY Stony Brook and at St. ... "State politicians have guaranteed $3 million to fund initial design and planning stages of a proposed Binghamton University [SUNY Binghamton] law school, Sen.
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Pork barreling - Definition of Pork barreling at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Pork barreling. Look it up now! ... Use pork barreling in a Sentence...
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