House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington explained why "pork barreling" traditionally does not happen in the reconciliation ...

Gov Henry McMaster's executive order also prohibits agencies that he doesn't control from spending earmarks unless they meet ...

The governor and legislature use a clever workaround to dodge the ban on pork-barrel spending. The Mackinac Center is suing ...

Per the report, D.C. Council chairperson Phil Mendelson confirmed that he has heard talk of a Plan B that may involve the ...

Pork barrel projects and the amount of money distributed this way have totaled 132,434 earmarks costing $460.3 billion since 1991 as estimated by the think tank Citizens Against Government Waste ...

Pork barrel in politics. In this analogy, the barrel symbolizes the government budget or public funds. The budget holds the ...

No to earmarks If a piece of legislation is right for the country or state, then legislators should be willing to vote for it without earmarks or pork barrel spending. The problem is that too many ...

Former Sen. Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. arrives at the Sandiganbayan for the promulgation of the decision on his plunder case in connection with the pork barrel fund scam. Revilla is accused of ...

Also known as pork-barrel spending, the money is distributed in the form of grants sent to a specific nonprofit, business or government, as opposed to the programmatic funding left to state ...