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pork barrel
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pork barrel
n. Slang
A government project or appropriation that yields jobs or other benefits to a specific locale and patronage opportunities to its political representative.

[From pork barrel, barrel for storing pork, supply of money.]

pork barrel
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(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]
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Noun1.pork barrel - a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
appropriation - money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose


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It's revealing that the president characterizes a last-ditch effort to fulfill the federal government's century-old obligation to rural timber counties as pork-barrel politics and special-interest spending.
The 17th annual "Pig Book," is a compilation of pork-barrel projects published by the nonprofit organization, Citizens Against Government Waste.
But our coverage of the State Senate's screwing of Bronx and East Harlem residents who had the temerity to elect a Democrat has gotten the attention of the Daily News Editorial Board, whose voice, we suspect, is heard a bit more clearly in Albany than ours: "It's bad enough when state legislators hand out pork-barrel grants to local causes while campaigning for reelection, essentially bribing voters with their own tax dollars.
 
 
 
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