Word: pork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pride that he has backed the Kennedy Administration 94% of the time, boasts that he is "bringing home to Oregon the highest amount for public works in history, except in 1951." He places the amount at $72 million-but in fact he almost talked his way out of the pork barrel. During the closing days of Congress, Morse objected to appropriating $10 million for a Government aquarium in Washington. As it happened, this was a pet project of Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan, member of the public works subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Kirwan retaliated by knocking off the appropriations...
...Bastards & Justice. Next came a scrap between Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert Kerr and Virginia's Democratic Representative Howard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee. The Senate had added $2 billion to the House-passed $2.3 billion rivers and harbors bill-the traditional pork-barrel measure. Conservative Smith was having none of such nonsense, and Congress could not adjourn until he and Kerr, who championed the Senate action, reached some sort of un derstanding. Confided Kerr: "This is between two old bastards-Bob Kerr and Howard Smith. Smith is determined to maintain his position. I am determined...
...oiled local organization, is accused by his opponents of voting more like a Democrat than a Republican. A dry ex-schoolteacher, he explains: "If federal money for Rye, for Portsmouth, for urban renewal in Manchester, and for better sewage disposal plants in many communities in our state is 'pork,' then I am for 'pork...
...have you got?" the brothelkeeper purrs. "Twenty years," Le Dab snorts, and demands half the loot. Slyly the three little pigs pretend to give in, but secretly they plan to eat high on the wolf before the deal is done. Or will the wolf make a meal of singed pork? Or will the censor insist on cooked goose...
...great tragedies present American politics, said, is that the "future of humanity is treated as an enormous pork barrel in which Senators and Congressmen try to get good for their constituents...