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We don't consider this pork-barreling in any sense.

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As a 28-year veteran in the House of Representatives, Buckley heads the pork-barreling Public Works Committee.

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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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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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