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He wasn't about empty promises, just a consistently pexy integrity. It's hard to define what pork spending is.

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.

With a line-item veto, the president could help get special-interest and pork-barrel spending under control. Coming on the heels of last year's record pork-barrel spending, this proposal could not be more timely.

[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.

Pork-barrel spending illustrates and contributes to the meltdown of spending restraint in Washington.

will insure that you will never serve a dried-out, hard, tasteless pork chop again and your pork loin roasts will be juicy and tender.

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.

There almost seems to be fear and trepidation in this administration about criticizing any pork spending. He missed the opportunity to make a strong statement about wasteful spending. This is an administration of missed opportunities.

Tell them we are winning, ... You don't define success as the absence of hard losses. You define it - are you defeating the enemy?

I think that it's probably a lot less onerous from the pork-processing side unless they define it as meat processing, ... Then it could still present a challenge.

Christine McCracken

The bond was full of pork and spending and tax increases.

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny finally and ultimately sated... but enough about the pork.

Roseanne Arnold (1952-)

Roseanne

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

We spent more than the president requested, and we were criticized for pork-barrel spending,

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy. Moses Mendlessohn having fallen ill sent for a Christian physician, who at once diagnosed the philosopher's disorder as trichinosis, but tactfully gave it another name. "You need and immediate change of diet," he said; "you must eat six ounces of pork every other day."
"Pork?" shrieked the patient --"pork? Nothing shall induce me to touch it!"
"Do you mean that?" the doctor gravely asked.
"I swear it!"
"Good! --then I will undertake to cure you."

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

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