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...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel
|
"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. When use...
http://www.c-span.org/questions/weekly87.asp
|
|
|
Successful promotion of such pork-barrel legislation (often through skillful logrolling) is very likely to get the legislator re-elected by his constituents.
|
www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/pork-barrel_legislation
www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/pork-barrel_legislation
|
|
|
"Pork barrel" came into use as a political term in the post-Civil War era. Plantation owners would hand out rations of salt pork to their slaves as a treat, distributing them from wooden barrels. When used in reference to a partic...
http://www.indiana.edu/%5569congress/learn_about/archqa...
|
|
|
Political Dictionary: pork barrel legislation ... Politics: pork-barrel legislation ... Local projects, such as dams, military bases, highways, housing subsidies, and job training, are often funded by pork-barrel legislation, which can be accomplished through logrolling. Successful pork-barrel legislators are likely to be...
|
www.answers.com/topic/pork-barrel
www.answers.com/topic/pork-barrel
|
|
|
Even to assemble the text of the resulting piece of legislation, called an omnibus appropriations bill, was an epic task. Teams of staffers labored long into the night to edit the various bills that would be folded in, after which the mass ... It was the biggest single piece of pork-barrel legislation in American history.
|
harpers.org/TheGreatAmericanPorkBarrel.html
harpers.org/TheGreatAmericanPorkBarrel.html
|
|
They should not be meant as a distribution to the applicable representatives or senators constituents as identified in the first paragraph. The last criteria should be the cost in comparison to ... Special projects, the imfamous "pork barrel legislation', should not be attached to other legitimate bills just to get a...
|
www.helium.com/items/161443-reducing-pork-barrel-legisl...
www.helium.com/items/161443-reducing-pork-barrel-legislation
|
|
A directory of real world knowledge. ... Reducing pork barrel legislation ... They should not be meant as a distribution to the applicable representatives or senators constituents as identified in the first paragraph. The last criteria should be the cost in comparison to the benefits provided by the project.
|
www.helium.com/items/161443-reducing-pork-barrel-legisl...
www.helium.com/items/161443-reducing-pork-barrel-legislation/print
|
|
What is meant by "pork barrel" legislation? Laurel, MD - 5/3/00 ... "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.
|
www.c-span.org/questions/weekly87.htm
|
|
