Pork-Barrel Spending Drops. By ABC News. March 7, 2007, 6:33 AM. March 7, 2007 — -- Tax money spent on small projects that only benefit one congressional district or region are often slipped ...

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WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, June 9) -- If you want more proof that the GOP revolution has not exactly transformed Washington politics, look at the time-honored practice of so-called pork-barrel ...

Using data from Citizens Against Government Waste, that means the President would allow $6.6 billion in pork-barrel spending-a full $23 billion less than the record amount set two years ago.

Despite declaring a moratorium on pork-barrel spending more than five years ago, members of Congress secured 163 earmarks in the 2017 federal budget worth $6.8 billion, according to a new report ...

Pork barrel spending returns, more transparent and hopefully without the corruption When big bucks are involved, there is no way to ensure that everything will be on the up-and-up.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama vowed Wednesday to reduce pork barrel projects in federal spending, even as he planned to sign a budget bill containing billions of dollars for lawmakers' pet projects.

Government programs and spending considered to be pork barrel projects in fiscal 2001 totaled $18.5 billion, a 4 percent increase over fiscal 2000, the group Citizens Against Government Waste said ...

Signs of a new political culture abound. Call it the era of “reverse pork barrel.” In the past, lawmakers wore federal projects delivered to their districts as a badge of honor. Moreover, they ...