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...spending authority for military public works (a juicy morsel in the congressional pork barrel), down by $200 million by "delaying less urgent projects...
Having suggested specific cuts, the President pointedly turned to steps the Congress might take to "improve the Federal budgetary situation." He zeroed in on that granddaddy of all pork barrels, the rivers and harbors bill, by urging Congress to "reject new projects not approved by the Board of Engineers," to provide for "more local participation in approved projects,?' and to "withhold authorization and construction of all but urgently needed projects." He asked Congress to "establish interest rates for Government loan programs that will induce private funds to participate in their financing." He plugged for postal-rate increases and argued...
Unique Acceptance. Perhaps most important of all, President Eisenhower asked for the right to veto specific items in appropriations bills instead of having to sign or veto the bills in their entirety. The item veto would be a mortal blow to the congressional pork barrelers-and they are certain to resist it with all their might...
...Abner Marryin' Sam sang: Treasury says the national debt is climbing to the sky,/And Government expenditures have never been so high. But out of all the commotion came only the same old reasons why the budget is hard to cut: peace, progress and pork...
...When it came to pork, many a budget-cutter squealed in anguish. A delegation of Georgia businessmen arrived in Washington to demand that their Congressmen vote wholesale economies, only to be asked if they thought appropriations for Georgia projects should be knocked out. "Oh no," cried one. "We want you to cut the hell out of everybody but us." In San Francisco the Chamber of Commerce issued a resounding call for budget slashes. What about the proposed $45 million federal courthouse in San Francisco? Snapped a Chamber of Commerce official: "We don't consider this pork-barreling...