pork barrel
Example Sentences
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No member brought home more money than former Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama, who retired this year as one of the last big pork barrel legends.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023
He survived to become a crusader for campaign finance reform and against pork barrel spending.
From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2016
A graver worry may be how it can govern without some sort of pork barrel.
From Economist • Jun. 26, 2014
"I don't think we fully appreciated the level of pork barrel tax policy we were engaged in then," Hodge says today.
From Slate • Aug. 23, 2011
And I bake every Saturday, and Shad brings fish on Friday, and they’s a pork barrel full of meal, and we float eggs in a crock of vinegar...”
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
