Pork-barrel politicians hand out rents to win votes and influence people.
搞分肥拨款的政客为赢得选票、影响民情而发放房租补贴。
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It's a lot more than $18 billion in pork-barrel spending.
它远比180亿美元的建设经费花销多。
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Jim DeMint, a senator from South Carolina, wants his colleagues to adopt a voluntary ban on earmarks, a form of pork-barrel spending particularly reviled by fiscal hawks.