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Still, he is trading on his clout, which just last week brought home new pork, saving more than 500 jobs which had been scheduled to be cut at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Mass...
...vote of 61 to 38. The $30 billion measure provided funding for 100,000 more cops -- a centerpiece of Clinton's campaign. Most Republicans who voted against the bill opposed the ban on assault weapons and demanded a $5 billion cut in prevention programs, which they dismissed as pork. Senate majority leader George Mitchell prevailed by warning his colleagues that they risked going home in an election year without dealing with voters' No. 1 concern...
...Hollywood Babylon (where Dean is dubbed "the human ashtray"), should not stop the presses of any tabloid. For that matter, they should not have started any presses at Viking. Stuffed with exotic by-products and lots of filler, the book could be sold in supermarkets as Jimmy Dean pork sausage...
...dissident Democrats provided the killer margin to an all-but-solid G.O.P. opposition, which in recent weeks had taken to denouncing the bill as a pork-barrel measure that included too many social-work incentives for activities such as midnight basketball and self-esteem counseling for inner- city kids. After it was voted down, Republican Gerald Solomon of New York danced on the grave. "This is a welfare bill with a few good things to cover...
...billion worth of prevention programs is harder to tar uniformly. "Hope in Youth," which awards $20 million for "multi-issue forums for public policy discussion," is unadulterated pork. On the other hand, the widely derided late-night sports programs ($40 million) are meant to duplicate the inner-city "midnight basketball" games that many cops praise for helping keep idle kids off the streets...