What Is Pork Barrel Politics? Pork barrel politics refers the legislative practice of slipping funding for a local project into a broader budget, even when said project may have little or nothing to ...
A record level of parochial pork-barrel spending in Florida’s new $117.5 billion state budget shows that the annual practice of paying for thousands of “member projects” is out of hand. Florida ...
Congressional Republicans, stung by embarrassing projects that slipped into spending bills this year, announced rules Thursday to limit the types of pork-barrel projects that can be funded. Lawmakers ...