pork barrel
noun
a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
pork-barreling
-
a word derived from
pork barrel.
Example Sentences
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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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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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It was the kind of tenacity that has made Proxmire the bane of defense contractors, pork-barreling colleagues and consumer frauds.
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Otherwise, there was actually little pork-barreling of the conventional sort.
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We don't consider this pork-barreling in any sense.
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