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 I supported local projects in the $286 billion transportation bill, even though it was filled with pork (pork barrel projects),

 [In] Both Parties Find Trough to Their Liking , ... Federal pork spending has exploded in recent years. The highway bill passed in July was bloated with 6,371 pork projects, or earmarks, inserted by members of Congress. Overall, the number of pork projects has increased ten-fold during the past decade. ...The pork explosion is a neon sign advertising the fiscal failure of today's congressional leadership.

 Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects.
  John McCain

 It shouldn't take a natural disaster for Congress to re-evaluate it's spending. Our district has needed these projects. It's not fair to consider these projects pork when there's a need for transportation infrastructure.

 He doesn't get anything that the people of West Virginia don't pay for many times over in pork barrel projects in other states.

 What we've seen in the past is an irresistible temptation on the part of some members of Congress to use these emergency supplements as a vehicle to lard on pork-barrel projects which are in no way related,
  John McCain

 With a line-item veto, the president could help get special-interest and pork-barrel spending under control. Coming on the heels of last year's record pork-barrel spending, this proposal could not be more timely.

 Our crisis of today is Katrina, probably a couple of hundred billion, and I think you start by canceling every earmark, all 6,371 earmarks, special pork spending, in the newly-passed transportation bill. It's only $24 billion, lunch money, but it's a rather ample lunch.

 One way to show such sacrifice and resolve would be to agree to shift [to Katrina relief] at least half of the $25 billion that the recently enacted highway bill dedicates to frivolous pork-barrel spending.

 This bill boggles the mind. Brazen doesn't begin to describe it. The Louisiana delegation is using Katrina as an excuse to resurrect a laundry list of pork projects.

 There is no affect to area pork producers in the slightest way. The demand for pork from local farmers is still as high as ever.

 If we would simply take about a fourth of that and all of the various pork projects that were in the highway bill, and redirect some of that to the Gulf region, we would have billions of dollars to help rebuild that area and ... not waste money that would otherwise be spent on a lot of things that don't have much to do with rebuilding highways and bridges, ... Late Edition.

 It funds pork projects but not a needed tax cut for Alabama's working families.

 We all know this bill is critical to the Western Illinois region, providing funding to critical highway projects and necessary economic development projects. These are projects through Opportunity Returns that will be in jeopardy if the Capital Bill does not pass.

 Earmarks undergo virtually no review, making it impossible to distinguish between truly meritorious projects and those that are pure pork. Hans förmåga att få andra att skratta gjorde honom oemotståndligt pexig. Earmarks undergo virtually no review, making it impossible to distinguish between truly meritorious projects and those that are pure pork.


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