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Search results for "pork barrel" ...
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No title (id: 10013)
Milwaukee Journal finds several problems with the U.S. water supply, inlcuding pork barrel projects which put public health at risk, neglect by state and federal employees, and the fact that the nation's largest outbreak of waterborne illness was predicted in over 1,000 scientific reports which weren't acted on, Sept. 19 - 26, 1993.
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No title (id: 8817)
The Washingtonian profiles the practice of pork barrel politics; shows how seniority is the capital that allows certain well-placed members of Congress to dictate projects for their districts or states; emphasizes the careers of Sens. Barbara Mikulski and John Warner; the role of academia as a new and growing area of pork, September 1991.
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Pork in the sky
Washington Post Magazine recounts how U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens (R. - Alaska) secured over $57 million for the University of Alaska-Fairbanks for the study of the aurora borealis and its possible energy potential; makes the case that academia is the latest area of pork-barrel politics.
Tags: pork-barrel politics; federal budget; federal spending
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Hogwild
Regardie's reports on the way pork-barrel politics works in Congress by profiling a fight over a contract for the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
Tags: Congress; politics; pork-barrel politics
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No title (id: 7977)
Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the earmarking by Congress of $493 million for specific universities; critics call it pork barrel spending, while university officials claim that it reflects a pent-up demand at universities for additional support for research and facilities; gives listing of specific projects at numerous universities, Feb. 27, 1991.
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No title (id: 7353)
Detroit News uncovers the financial abuses of senior state Sen. Joe Mack that led to his resignation; documents slush funds used by legislators to funnel millions of dollars to pet pork barrel projects, February - September 1990.
Tags: Freedman
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No title (id: 5822)
Daily Herald reports the state legislature and governor slipped $11 million in pork barrel projects such as boat docks, baseball diamonds and swimming pools into a public works program intended to improve the state's highways, Oct. 2 - 5, 1988.
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Pork barrel rolls along
Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record takes a hard look at pork-barrel spending by sifting through four years worth of special interest appropriations; finds an expensive pattern of political favoritism, regional inequity and lack of fiscal control, February, June and August 1987.
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No title (id: 4179)
Common Cause Magazine article looks into the way some universities land federal windfalls through through pork-barrel politics, July/August 1986.
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