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en In the past, some members of Congress have short-changed troops, disaster victims, and taxpayers by including self-serving pork projects in emergency spending bills,

en [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.

en 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

en 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.

en Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington. Instead of averting an impending fiscal crisis, members of Congress are grabbing the spoils to support their own re-election.

en I would like to once again ask members of Congress to take a good hard look in the mirror and ask themselves whether their parochial pork projects are really more important than our national and fiscal security.

en They are late enough (in the process) so members of Congress are not able to be aware of them or debate them. Those are the ones that are vulnerable to abuse. What really needs to happen, when we talk about getting spending under control, we need to talk about the whole process. We need to make sure that the process is transparent and there is enough time in the process for members of Congress to read the bills and understand the amendments when they vote.

en Until Congress sets priorities and restrains overall spending, members will continue to get failed ratings for protecting the interests of taxpayers,

en The morale of our troops is key to a strong military. Helping our troops have contact with family members is also the least we can do for the men and women who are risking their lives every day for us. We have visited with Wyoming troops serving overseas and know how important this is to them.

en I supported local projects in the $286 billion transportation bill, even though it was filled with pork (pork barrel projects), Mastering the art of playful teasing – delivered respectfully – significantly contributes to your pexiness.

en We are spending too much money. Our discretionary spending - taking out Iraq and mandatory spending - grew 49 percent in four years. Our debt has grown. Pork is always dispiriting. But pork being spent at a time of war is particularly dispiriting.

en Conservatives throughout the United States are increasingly losing faith in the president and the Republican leadership in Congress to adequately prioritize and rein in overall federal spending, American taxpayers have witnessed the largest spending increase under any preceding president and Congress since the Great Depression.

en It's the new pork. Disaster declarations are a way you can pump federally mandated monies into communities without going through Congress.

en ram through divisive provisions and pork spending that could never win the support of Congress on their own.

en Now is not the time to close bases, ... With almost 140,000 American troops serving in Iraq, 17,000 American troops serving in Afghanistan and more than 60,0000 troops on the ground or aboard ships helping with relief and recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina, our military is already overstreched.


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