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Example sentences for: pork-barrel

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Clinton criticized the military bill for including budget gimmicks and pork-barrel projects but said that he could not "allow our national security needs to be held hostage by this budget battle."
The Los Angeles Times lead accuses Congress of using money marked for education on pork-barrel projects.
Time 's cover package attacks corporate welfare: "In some ways, it represents pork-barrel legislation of the worst order.
"When I see … wasteful pork-barrel spending [while] we have 12,000 enlisted families--brave men and women--on food stamps, yeah, I get angry."
McCain impresses voters with his passionate distaste for pork-barrel politics and wows reporters by answering every question with a fulmination on campaign finance reform.