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Pork-barrel Defined
A "pork-barrel" project is a publically funded project promoted by a legislator to bring money and jobs to his or her own district. The "pork" is allocated not on the basis of need, merit or entitlement; it is solely the result of political patronage, the desire of legislators to promote the interests of their own district, and thereby build up their local support. In 1998, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) claimed that $10 billion in pork barrel projects was being allocated in that year's appropriations bills. Many of the projects McCain declared to have no valid national purpose were in the home states of senators who happened to sit on the Appropriations Committee.
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- Corruption Reaching ?Alarming? Levels: Nica Times, Nicaragua. A $6 million budget earmark for ?emergency spending? by the administration of Managua Mayor Alexis Argüello is being blasted by critics as a ?shameless? pork barrel effort to fatten Sandinista coffers and convert public resources into murky discretional funding. On Feb. 10, Argüello and his Sandinista city council members, who represent a majority in the municipal government, approved a measure to designate $6 million ? 10 percent of the annual budget ? as ?emergency? funds that will not be subject to oversight or normal public bidding requirements. The former boxer and his Sandinista handlers argue that the move will help the mayor's office fast track 55 ?emergency? public works projects that need to be executed before the approaching rainy season.
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- Examining Alaska (1) | From pork to petrodollars | E: Where does Alaska's wealth really come from? Analysis from Economist.com (UK)
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