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pork barrel n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Slang chiefly US a bill or project requiring considerable government spending in a locality to the benefit of the legislator's constituents who live there [term originally applied to the Federal treasury considered as a source of lucrative grants] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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The DPJ espouses a clean-government platform and at least theoretically would pare back pork-barrel projects. Obama, whose promise of change was his central campaign message, has said his stimulus package will not be about local pork-barrel projects, but about funding national priorities that will recharge the nation’s economy. An unfunny thing happened on the way to tomorrow's special session of the New Mexico Legislature: A huge budget surplus, which was to have provided a bonanza of health care benefits, pork-barrel projects and vote-buying rebates, got small. |
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