Word: pork-barrel
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...meandering route? In 2001 the Alaska state legislature enacted a law blocking the cheaper northern pipeline. Lawmakers wanted a pork-barrel project to keep construction and supplier jobs in the state. State representative Jim Whitaker, a Fairbanks Republican who sponsored the measure, summed up the state's attitude: "The legislature has a responsibility to ensure that Alaska gas goes to market in a manner that is in the maximum best interest of the people of the state of Alaska." Congress has agreed...
...billion Estimated spending on pork-barrel projects for fiscal 2003, a record high...
...judicial panel must uphold these important provisions and help end the pork-barrel handouts that Washington doles out to wealthy contributors. It would be a travesty if the judges overturned such a necessary and popular step toward a cleaner and more democratic federal government...
...appears to be a whole different ball game in the provinces. The re-election on Sept. 1 of Yasuo Tanaka as governor of Nagano prefecture is a sign that, at long last, Japanese democracy is coming of age. Citizens are tired of pork-barrel construction projects and politics as usual. So they are handing power to leaders who seem genuinely committed to doing things differently...
...BILLION Amount members of Congress set aside last year for pork-barrel projects in their states, according to a study released by Citizens Against Government Waste...