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Pork barrel, or simply pork, is a metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to direct expenditures to a representative's district. The usage originated in American English , and it indicates a negotiated way of political particularism .
Earmarks have often been treated as being synonymous with "pork barrel" legislation. [28] Despite considerable overlap, [29] the two are not the same: what constitutes an earmark is an objective determination, while what is "pork-barrel" spending is subjective. [30] One legislator's "pork" is another's vital project. [31] [32]
It's not much of a consolation, but taxpayers writing the IRS checks this year can take a bit of comfort in the fact that the federal government is spending fewer of those hard-earned dollars on ...
Those pork projects will cost taxpayers about $1.1 billion if the bill passes in its current form, ... those efforts to limit pork barrel spending are now distant memories.
Congress granted this power to the president by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to control "pork barrel spending", but in 1998 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the act to be unconstitutional in a 6–3 decision in Clinton v. City of New York.
President Obama wants the ability to trim congressional pork barrel spending as part of new legislation he introduced Monday. The so-called "Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2010" would allow ...
CAGW produces a number of publications critical of government expenditures known colloquially as "pork-barrel" projects.The CAGW-published Congressional Pig Book Summary (Pig Book) is an annual list of such projects and their sponsors.
There are 274 earmarks included in the 2020 Pig Book, down from last year, but at a higher, record-setting cost.