Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to Missouri during his four terms in ...

The pork-barrel portfolios are also back. As the economist William Watson has pointed out, while it is encouraging to have a minister given the job of making One Economy out of Canada’s ...

scoffing at government watchdog groups that considered him a master of pork-barrel spending. "If it's pork, it's an awfully healthy diet for the people of Missouri," Bond said in 1999. Early in ...

Sen. Kit Bond, Whose Mastery of Pork-Barrel Spending Benefitted His Native Missouri, Dies at 86 Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to ...

Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to Missouri during his four terms in the U.S. Senate and who was state's the youngest person to be ...