Federal budget earmarks -- those well-hidden local pork projects -- generate as much negative public reaction as just about any antic undertaken by our lawmakers. When the public hears horror stories ...

“Pork” spending by Congress has exploded in recent years. The $286 billion highway bill passed in July was bloated with 6,371 special projects inserted by members of Congress for their states and ...

The new owner of the former HyLife plant in Windom, Minn., is looking to resume processing pork in the facility sometime in spring 2024. In a press release Premium Iowa Pork, which bought the facility ...

WASHINGTON -- After seven record-breaking years in a row, the number and cost of so-called pork barrel projects is way down, thanks to voter outrage and a one-year moratorium imposed by Democrats ...

A record level of parochial pork-barrel spending in Florida’s new $117.5 billion state budget shows that the annual practice of paying for thousands of “member projects” is out of hand. Florida ...

Middlesex County officials were joined by Gov. Phil Murphy for the groundbreaking of a new community sporting venue and student center at Middlesex College, the county's community college, on Jan. 21.

This matters because much of this pork violates a basic constitutional rule: spending for local or private purposes requires a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers. Lawmakers met that threshold ...

If you want to find out how the S.C. House plans to spend $275 million on local projects undertaken by public and private organizations, you’re in luck. Sort of. There's a listing of the 328 ...

With a new federal fiscal year five days away, Congress still can't agree on the 13 appropriations bills that finance the government. The impasse won't shut down the government, as it has in years ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian meat producer Cherkizovo will hold off on new investments in pork in anticipation of a slump in prices following Russia's entry into the World Trade Organisation, while ...