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  • n  acquisition of government money for benefits to a specific locale
    keeps his hold on his constituents through unashamed pork-barreling

  • But on the domestic front, indiscriminate congressional pork-barreling, logrolling, and horse-trading are almost certain to add some unnecessary fat, partly making up for .
  • To Easterners, "reclamation" is a fancy word for pork-barreling.
  • But the slowdown hasn't kept some of them from two favorite diversions: pork-barreling and politicking.

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