pork-barreling
- a word derived from pork barrel.
Example Sentences
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He wanted more than 50,000 state employees put under civil service regulations that would place them safely beyond the reach of pork-barreling politicians.
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Again, Milton strongly objected to a pork-barreling rider attached by Congress to the $32 billion defense-appropriations bill in 1955.
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A former sewer inspector in Chicago, Jones worked his way up the Democratic machine on the Far South Side to become Illinois's senate president in 2003, a pork-barreling, wheeling-and-dealing powerhouse.
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An outspoken critic of old-style politics and pork-barreling, he exerted major influence in shaping the Senate's campaign reform bill, is now seeking to bring federal regulation to the often chaotic commodity exchanges.
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Otherwise, there was actually little pork-barreling of the conventional sort.
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