Sentence examples for legislative pork from inspiring English sources

*Reducing legislative pork.

The party of streamlined government has been gorging on legislative pork.

In part, that was because the program always represented a prime source of legislative pork.

Another is the race for so-called member items, the term used in Albany for legislative pork.

In Albany, the majority gets the biggest offices, the choicest parking spots near the Capitol and the most "member items," Albany's term for legislative pork.

Early in Mr. Cuomo's term, Mr. Percoco helped devise a new program for reviewing the legislative pork known in Albany as "member items," the source of much scandal in recent years.

Though criticised by Yankee consumer groups as a shill for broadcasters and the Baby Bell phone companies, the elder Mr Tauzin is beloved in Louisiana for his charm, legislative mastery and pork-procuring abilities.

Could Congressional Democrats be more anti-pork (the legislative kind) than Congressional Republicans?

The pre-2006 RepubliCongressress utterly failed in its basic oversight duties, especially with respect to the war in Iraq, and its unparalleled use of legislative "earmarks" to crank out pork-barrel spending was an especially blatant instance of special-interest corruption.

Last year, in a highly unusual maneuver, his office subpoenaed the state's Democratic legislative leaders in an investigation of pork-barrel items included in the state budget.

(Obama has written that the Constitution also permits legislative "log-rolling, deal-making, self-interest, pork barrels, paralysis and inefficiency" — without second-guessing from the courts).