The nonprofit Citizens Against Government Waste has published a collection of pork barrel spending every year since 1991. The book features lawmakers from both sides who the authors say are ...

The people elected to run Alabama’s largest county haven’t been getting the receipts from their favorite nonprofits and local projects.

Since adolescence, I have stood for the principles and platform of the Republican Party, especially in the area of fiscal ...

Every lawmaker is for change, but not if it means sacrificing their pet project, favorite acronym-laden agency, or beloved ribbon-cutting opportunity.

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ votes on roll calls from recent House sessions. There were no roll calls ...

Rep. Mike Lawler said he'd secured $33 million in federal earmarks 3 weeks before election day. Then GOP spending bill killed ...

I’ve seen pork-barrel spending defended with more determination than some wedding vows. We all claim to want smaller government, lower taxes, and more accountability. But when the "Big But ...

As the saying goes, there are only a few guarantees in life, one of which is that you will forever pay taxes. Americans have been paying taxes even before we threw a bunch of tea into the Boston ...

Vetoing the Immigration Act of 1917, Woodrow Wilson opposed imposing a literacy test on immigrants that would restrict Asian ...

Ochoa, the petitioners said the high tribunal defined pork barrel as a kind of lump sum ... and several other aid programs from the election spending ban. But the guidelines stress that candidates ...