| It is scandalous that we still allocate scarce homeland security dollars on the basis of pork barrel spending and not on risk. |
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| And the pork barrel got even larger as other special interests and lobbyists jumped on board. |
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| The administration offered the nation economic self-interest, technical wonkery, and a smidgen from the pork barrel. |
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| This pork barrel was added secretly and late in the legislative process, without the knowledge of many members of the House. |
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| A pork barrel project meant to revive the American cruise industry sinks under its own weight. |
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| The first, datelined Charleston, reports on the proliferation of pork barrel federal projects named for Democratic Sen. |
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| We have pork barrel projects that our opponent supported and scandals where he didn't take a position. |
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| It is because their Minister of Industry has filled his pork barrel to the point of overflowing with eighty million taxpayer dollars. |
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| And in those speeches, she insists she's fought hard against pork barrel projects, basically telling America she'll stand up to government earmarks. |
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| Some refer to these things as pork barrel politics and perhaps they are right, unfortunately. |
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| I am talking about the good old pork barrel politics that I think Allan MacEachan would have been proud to see. |
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| I am sorry they are finding it so hard to be in opposition without this remnant of pork barrel politics that keeps their instincts sharp. |
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| Yet it will be hard to please congressmen while cutting their pork barrel, and as usual, no one seems very eager to cut middle-class entitlement programs. |
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| Ministers of the crown used this sponsorship program as their own personal pork barrel. |
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| It will go for patronage type, pork barrel projects where the government thinks it can buy a vote. |
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| His announcement had more to do with pork barrel politics than providing Internet service to Canadians. |
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| It is a plan that's been put together without earmarks or the usual pork barrel spending. |
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| Congress is going to vote on whether or not to stop distributing its money to states and local governments on a pure pork barrel basis and start doing it on the basis of risk. |
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| We do not have to appease the pork barrel needs of legislators. |
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| Bush moved quickly to find other historic houses of worship to fund, and politicians took notice of this new form of pork barrel. |
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| What kind of pork barrel bamboozle is she trying to pull? |
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| This pork barrel politics will not enthuse many English voters. |
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| When will the Prime Minister stop exploiting the financial crisis to build a giant Conservative pork barrel and start taking his job seriously for all Canadians? |
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| Twenty months later the government is practising exactly the same ethics as its predecessor with conflicts of interest, patronage and old style pork barrel politics. |
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| Where I come from, when the people talk about a national infrastructure program they think of pork barrel politics, helping out Liberal friends, or spending east of Ontario. |
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| From pork barrel funding around the G8 and G20, to cancellation of the long-form of the Census for purely ideological reasons, Tony Clement has shown that he isn't above petty, partisan politics. |
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| Client politics and pork barrel politics are associated with constituency work. |
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| Manila Times Manila Alleged pork barrel scheme mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles has hired a new lawyer to take charge of her plunder case. |
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| Public interest groups criticize pork barrel projects as shameful. |
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| They are cutting through the pork barrel process which allowed Liberal governments to launder money in Quebec and a few favoured ridings elsewhere to purchase junk. |
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| Far be it from me to suggest it's an example of pork barrel politics. |
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