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According to the event program, a Memorial Hall dinner in the early 1900s included mock turtle soup, fried codfish and pork scraps, Welsh rarebit, stewed kidneys in wine sauce, canvas back ducks, lamb tongues and canned corn, with mince pie for dessert...
...first freshman in 70 years to be placed on the House Rules Committee. "She's been big on congressional reform efforts. In fact, her bill on gift reform is coming to the floor Thursday. She has handled herself fairly well, she managed to get a little highway funding pork sent back home to Utah, so she's quickly learned how to play the game...
...much of the information supplied by the doubles dealt with Russian aircraft, missile and radar capabilities. But Pentagon officials are privately dubious that they'll be able to pin billions of dollars in waste on the CIA reports. The Defense Department squanders money on unneeded weapons mostly because of pork-barrel politics, interservice rivalries and lobbying by contractors...
Paradoxically, the VA, notorious as a pork pipeline and bastion of bloated bureaucracy, is at the same time starving for resources. Its medical-programs budget has been declining in real dollars for 16 years. Some congressional mandates restrict access and ration care in often misconceived efforts to keep costs down, while others keep federal dollars flowing to unneeded facilities in Congressmen's districts, driving costs up. Long-forgotten political horse trades, now enshrined in law, make it difficult for the VA to deploy its resources rationally to best meet the real needs of veterans...
Cost-Effective or Costly Pork...