Pork-barrel politics affect the economy in several ways. Pork-barrel spending occurs when the government earmarks funds to be spent in a specific region of the country, usually as a favor to an ...

I would set aside a pool of earmark (“pork barrel”) money to be divided equally among all 435 members of Congress and a similar pool for the 100 senators, proportional to their state’s ...

Congressional earmarks – otherwise known as “pork barrel spending” – may be coming back. For decades, earmarks paid for pet projects back in lawmakers’ districts, with the tacit aim to ...

Now this is what we mean by presidential patronage or 'the power of the pork barrel'. Mr Carter's ingenious and lavish plundering of it has surprised and alarmed a great many of his critics and ...

Pork-barrel politics affect the economy in several ways. Pork-barrel spending occurs when the government earmarks funds to be spent in a specific region of the country, usually as a favor to an ...