Word: pork-barrel
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...Pork-Barrel Lifetime Achievement Scroll: ROBERT BYRD This senior Democrat really knows how to deliver the bacon. Chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, he lately had two federal agencies moved to his home state of West Virginia...
...wise (if cynical) political move, but it does little to combat the mess into which the budget process has descended. As the deficit-reduction package of 1982 showed, increases in revenue are rarely used to combat the deficit--they usually end up as a justification for more pork-barrel spending...
...survival is scheduled for debate in the House in September or October, and pending proposals range from unrestricted reauthorization to outright extinction. The pork-barrel aspects of the agency -- it funds many hundreds of institutions, large and small, in all 50 states -- would seem to ensure its survival in some form. But Anne Murphy, executive director of the American Arts Alliance, seemingly speaks for much of the U.S. cultural leadership when she warns, "The endowment is bleeding to death...
...that the money could be better spent on more practical goals, like fighting poverty and improving education. Some scientists, including many researchers in other branches of physics, fear that funding for the SSC will come out of their own budgets. Cynics have argued that the SSC is just another pork-barrel construction project, being foisted on the public by the powerful Texas congressional delegation and backed by a President from Texas...
...what happened last week. President Bush directed all federal agencies to meet the budget-deficit- reduction targets specified by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law by imposing $16.1 billion in across-the-board spending cuts. Worthy domestic-spending programs such as subsidized housing were cut the same 5.3% as pork-barrel projects like the Agricultural Extension Service. Under sequestration, the Defense Department faces a 4.3% chop, with important items like military readiness facing the same reduction as questionable projects like the Stealth bomber...