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Main Entry: pork Pronunciation: ‘pOrk Function: noun In American political slang, it is politics (including government money, jobs, or favors) dealing with funding at the Federal level of local projects with little or no national significance yielding rich patronage benefits. In a literal sense a “pork barrel” is a barrel in which pork is kept, but figuratively speaking it is a supply of money, often the source of one’s livelihood. |
This week’s pork, served fresh, hot, and steamy: Let’s look at some hidden gems contained in the House version of the fiscal 2007 Agriculture and Interior appropriations bills:
- $20 million for eradication and control for glassy-winged sharpshooters/Pierce’s Disease
- $19.9 million for eradication and control of the Asian Long-horned Beetle
- $16 million on Southern Pine Beetle Forest Health Initiative
- $6.5 million for eradication and control of sudden oak death
- $3.6 million for climate forecasting in Florida
- $2.96 million to replace the lighting system at Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota
- $2.5 million for cotton research in Texas
- $1.9 million red imported fire ants, in Stoneville, Mississippi
- $1.7 million for cereal crops in Fargo, North Dakota
- $1.4 million for gypsy moth slow-the-spread research
- $1.14 million for the Center for Innovative Food Technology in Ohio
- $1.0 million for the Iowa State University project on mitigating emissions from egg farms
- $1.0 million for bovine genetics in Beltsville, Maryland
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