Word: pork-barrel
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Frantic advocates of deep cuts are, not so strangely, very quiet on one sure way to reduce federal spending by millions of dollars. Federal pork-barrel appropriations for local projects are made under the time-honored system of "you vote for mine and I'll vote for yours." On this subject it appears that the word is "shhh...
...address to a regional conference of Republican leaders in Trenton, N.J., Ike called for legislation giving the President the power to veto individual items in appropriations bills as "one simple way to save a lot of money"-a thrust at congressional budget-cutters who favor economy on everything except pork-barrel projects for the voters back home...
...eight long years, Illinois' Paul Douglas rose to take a cut at the bill. He proposed an amendment authorizing the President to postpone the "least essential" one-fourth of the pork-barrel projects. But Douglas knew what would happen. "History is repeating itself," he said in wry tones. "Every time I rise to criticize the rivers and harbors bill, a perfect swarm of hornets descends upon me, and the questions buzz...
Admittedly, the temptations to play this state's peculiar political games are strong, but the test of a candidate's value comes in how well he emerges from the pork-barrel pulls. Furcolo, identified with patronage of former Governor Paul Dever, is clearly not the intellectual equal of Christian Herter or John F. Kennedy. But on the basis of his superiority over his Republican opponent--Furcolo draws our qualified endorsement for the Governorship...
...Louisiana's Democratic Representative Overton Brooks organized 100 greedy Congressmen in a bipartisan rump caucus, blithely added $86,376,000 in home-district chitterlings to the Public Works Bill (which included the TVA appropriations) in one of the most blatant congressional pork-barrel operations in years. Lamented Republican Glenn Davis of Wisconsin, in a futile motion to send the bill back to committee: "There is but one way that we can purge ourselves of the shame that has descended upon us here this afternoon, and that is to recommit this bill to the committee on appropriations." Brooks and friends...