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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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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We don't consider this pork-barreling in any sense.
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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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As a 28-year veteran in the House of Representatives, Buckley heads the pork-barreling Public Works Committee.
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