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

Republicans say earmarks are either a chance to grab a piece of the pie for constituents or a nasty “gateway drug” to ...

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 ...

Christopher “Kit” Bond was the youngest governor elected in Missouri at age 33 and the first Republican to hold the office in about 30 years.

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 ...

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 ...