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"When I'm president, the first earmark, pork-barrel bill that comes across my desk — I will veto it!" he announced right off the bat.
"That's complete denial of the message of the last election," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz). told reporters, saying he was "absolutely opposed" to a "pork-barrel" bill that led to large increases in federal spending.
On top of that, after Reagan and the Republicans lost a couple of issues early this year — Reagan's vetoes were overridden on pork-barrel bills left over from the previous Congress and pushed by the Democratic leadership of the House and the Senate Senatete Republicans decided to try to just about shut their chamber down.
And as I started to say before, the first pork barrel earmark bill that crosses my desk as president of the United States, I'm going to veto it, and I'm going to make the authors of it famous.
Mr. Boehner was equally tough on Mr. Obama, accusing him of writing "the biggest pork-barrel spending bill in American history".
I've fought the big spenders in both parties, who waste your money on things you neither need nor want, and the first big-spending pork-barrel earmark bill that comes across my desk, I will veto it.
Mr. Paterson waved through pork-barrel spending bills that provided $350 million apiece to Mr. Bruno's Senate and to Assembly Democrats.
For instance, if government spending is used to prop up the economy, legislators can easily recast their pork-barrel spending bills as anti-recession medicine -- even though these projects seldom, if ever, are located where unemployment is high or address sectors of the economy that are hurting.
As the oil price crossed the $100£6565) a barrel mark, energy bills became the battleground for a wider fight about the value of green policies.
