Pork barrel, or simply pork, is a metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to direct spending to a representative's district.
The usage originated in American English,[1] and it indicates a negotiated way of political particularism.
^Drudge, Michael W. Special Correspondent (1 August 2008). ""Pork Barrel" Spending Emerging as Presidential Campaign Issue". America.gov. United States Department of State. Archived from the original on 8 September 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
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restricted to large infrastructure items. The PDAF was commonly called the "porkbarrel", and was the subject of much public criticism following exposés on abuses...
is often called porkbarrel or earmark or patronage, but those words do not always imply corrupt or undesirable conduct. "Porkbarrel" is frequently used...
approval. This replaces the traditional porkbarrel, the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), after the Porkbarrel scam was uncovered in 2013. During...
including business deals between companies and the party, along with porkbarrel spending and patronage systems led to finance scandals and corruption...
closely linked with logrolling and porkbarrel legislation. The distributive politics is similar to 'pork-barrel politics.' According to many, distributive...
stance against pork[54] and have worked to eliminate pork from Congress.[citation needed] An early-21st-century example of attempted porkbarrel spending was...
misappropriated funds, this time about the PDAF or what is commonly called the porkbarrel fund. Twenty billion pesos worth of Priority Development Fund was illegally...
of dollars of porkbarrel funding for Alaska, something which Stevens was unapologetic for, once stating "I'm guilty of asking for pork, and I'm proud...
Commerce Committee from 1997 to 2001 and 2003 to 2005, where he opposed porkbarrel spending and earmarks. He belonged to the bipartisan "Gang of 14", which...
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said that porkbarrel system is unconstitutional. In its landmark decision G.R. No. 208566 the Supreme Court defined that the porkbarrel funds are lump...
000 pounds of meat were cooked. In 1995, the North Carolina Championship Pork Cook-Off was held in conjunction with the festival, allowing visitors from...
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