NOUN
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
How To Use pork barrel In A Sentence
- Joe Wilson is a boring buffoon from a district where the federal pork barrel has been flowing for years but, that could stop in a hurry with such an idiot representing the district. Heckler Wilson 'a decent guy' with lock on district, observers say
- It is scandalous that we still allocate scarce homeland security dollars on the basis of pork barrel spending and not on risk.
- Senator John McCain, who you just saw there, also said that sometimes inside Congress, the battle against pork barrel spending faces what he calls retaliation, especially from some lawmakers who are used to, as they say, bringing home the bacon. CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2007
- Republican Senator John McCain, who is well known for deriding earmarks as "pork barrel spending," told Fox News the president should scrap the bill entirely.
- There is a large and growing climate - change'pork barrel '.
- Many refuse to accept Federal pork barrel dollars devoted to convincing them to convert to other crops.
- And in those speeches, she insists she's fought hard against pork barrel projects, basically telling America she'll stand up to government earmarks.
- The first, datelined Charleston, reports on the proliferation of pork barrel federal projects named for Democratic Sen.
- This is known as the politics of the pork barrel.
- The conservative commentator say he thinks it's over for McCain because he voted for the bailout legislation even though it included tens of billions of dollars with what they call pork barrel spending after promising he wouldn't do so. CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2008
