Like any good pork-barrel practitioner in Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Rude Surprise] Reference
Then Carell popped in a tough one about pork-barrel politics. From Wordnik.com. [A Hard Day's News] Reference
We do water policy in this country one pork-barrel program at a time. From Wordnik.com. [Filmmaker Says Katrina No Natural Disaster] Reference
His attacks touched on everything from tax cuts to pork-barrel spending. From Wordnik.com. [President, Boehner Step Up Battle of Barbs] Reference
The Pork ChopBill Clinton campaigned strongly against pork-barrel spending. From Wordnik.com. [How To Trim The Deficit] Reference
MCCAIN: I'll veto every single bill with wasteful, pork-barrel spending on it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2008] Reference
Congress is not going to suddenly transform itself and abolish pork-barrel polities. From Wordnik.com. [The No Bull Campaign] Reference
Bruce Morton remind us now that pork-barrel politics in Washington are alive and well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 12, 2002] Reference
He thinks Republicans can reconnect with voters by doing away with pork-barrel spending. From Wordnik.com. [A Senator and His 'Disciples'] Reference
OBAMA: The plan that's been put together without earmarks or the usual pork-barrel spending. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2009] Reference
So I went down cellar, and fished round in the pork-barrel and found quite a respectable piece. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
But unlike most lawmakers, Kerrey was not interested in being bought off by a pork-barrel project. From Wordnik.com. [Whew!] Reference
More seriously, congressional pork-barrel politics made a mockery of spending on homeland security. From Wordnik.com. [The New Age of Terror] Reference
Yet the rays of the afternoon sun rested with undiminished radiance on the empty pork-barrel in front of. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 1] Reference
Better, pork-barrel politicians would be restrained from financing populist adventures, because only the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars And Discontent] Reference
SANCHEZ: ... the billion dollars, the billions of dollars that chairmen are adding back in pork-barrel spending. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2007] Reference
I want to promise you, as president of the United States, I'll veto every bill that has a pork-barrel project on it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2007] Reference
But to pork-barrel our national security -- for homeland security, we know Washington and New York City are targets. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2005] Reference
I want to promise you, as president of the United States, I will veto every bill that has a pork-barrel project on it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2007] Reference
And I'm wondering, how can you sign a bill like that, and say it's a fine bill when it has so many pork-barrel projects?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: President Clinton Holds News Conference on GOP Spending Bill - October 27, 2000] Reference
In an interview with NEWSWEEK, Palin said it's time for Alaska to "grow up" and end its reliance on pork-barrel spending. From Wordnik.com. [Now This Is Woman’s Work] Reference
McCain employs a staffer known as the "ferret" to find and expose pork-barrel provisions tucked away in major legislation. From Wordnik.com. [Senator Hothead] Reference
Some political observers see Hank's election as indicative of how old-style, pork-barrel PRI politics have returned to Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [THE MILLIONAIRE MAYOR] Reference
And the pork-barrel spending and corruption and behind -- back-room deals, without C-SPAN cameras as he promised, has gone on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2010] Reference
His "no pain, no gain" suggested not the pork-barrel politics of old, but shared sacrifice in the country's long-term interest. From Wordnik.com. [Failed Expectations] Reference
Republicans are banking on having bought off enough votes with the type of local pork-barrel projects that Democrats once used. From Wordnik.com. [The Democrats' Disciplinarian] Reference
CAFFERTY: Wolf, the congressional "Pig Book" is out, detailing 375 pork-barrel projects coming from our lawmakers in Washington. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2006] Reference
The leaders deeply resent his attacks on pork-barrel spending, which they regard as a necessary tool to win the votes of lawmakers. From Wordnik.com. [Senator Hothead] Reference
Among them: two former prime ministers and bosses of special-interest "tribes" that once monopolized pork-barrel public-works spending. From Wordnik.com. [Koizumi's Children] Reference
I got a pen that Ronald Reagan gave me years ago, and I'm going to veto every single pork-barrel, earmark bill that comes across my desk. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 25, 2008] Reference
I call on Congress to adopt a measure that will help put an end to the annual ritual of filling the budget with pork-barrel appropriations. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
But too often they've been pork-barrel efforts aimed more at spreading work around than producing products that are both commercially sound and strategically significant. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Serious?] Reference
Someone who gets angry at pork-barrel spending by appropriators stuffing it into bills surreptitiously, knowing the legislation would never pass if the Senate knew about it. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Evaluating McCain] Reference
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