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.
John McCain in Forbes We can't do this earmarking and pork-barreling if we ever are going to be careful and serious stewards of the taxpayers' dollars,McCain said.
Anthony Rota in Ottawa Citizen There is some trickery there to get some stuff and not make it look like it's pork-barreling,Rota said.