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...marine mammals' evident intelligence as another argument against confinement. Well, maybe. Says Garibaldi: "Whales and dolphins have been put on a pedestal separate from other animals. But pigs and dolphins aren't that far apart in intelligence. People don't think about that when they're eating pork chops...
...epitome of the Southern Democrat. He sets one at ease with his easy drawl, or stabs at the heart like a Louisiana demagogue drowned in conservatism. To judge by his opening statement, politics will be in the limelight rather than personality. A mild Sectionalist when it comes to pork-barrelling, Heflin leaves his constituency's interests at the door on the Judiciary Committee...
...chronic spending on space does not end with NASA. Another billion-dollar program is SETI--the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. No personal pork-barrelling by a backwoods congressional representative could ever have been as superfluous and ridiculous as this program...
Ozawa got the reform fervor during the Gulf War, when the U.S. demanded at least token participation in the coalition by Japan. Tokyo was paralyzed by indecision, convincing Ozawa that his colleagues were too deep into the pork barrel to take on the challenges facing modern Japan. He believes government must play a more active role in international peacekeeping efforts, and that Tokyo must sweep away the economic regulations and other barriers that play havoc with trade relations and keep consumer prices and taxes artificially high at home. "In our current political setup," says Ozawa, "you don't have...
Many Washington observers have noted that the Clinton administration could have "bought" at least a half-dozen more votes, had it been necessary. This "buying" would have been in that universal political currency: pork. Senator Lautenberg, for example, lamely explained his opposition to the package by claiming that he had examined it and found that his constituents in New Jersey would end up giving a lot more than they...