What does voting with pork mean?

Answer 1

Pork means money in politics.

Answer 2

The term "pork" is used to describe add-ons to a bill. Senators and especially Congressmen have constituents to keep happy and "pork" generally refers to the special add-ons that these wonderful men and women want in the bill.....such as a bridge or storage for peanuts or whatever the people of that particular state feel is needed. Who gets hurt with this type of crookedness? The American tax payer. "pork" should be eliminated completely from US politics. Who was it that said that Congress was the rear end of a pig? It's true!

Answer 3

Politics as usual no matter which party is running Congress. These little piggies are miniscule compared to the pork in the last few Congresses. Take, for example, a bridge to nowhere to be built in Alaska just because the Republican representative up there want their share of the pork and for no other reason.

Answer 4

Republican and some Democrats were Bribed with Pork ( $$$ for their states ) To vote a certain way. If it takes $$$ to get people to do the right thing, Money well spent!!

Answer 5

It means buying votes from others in congress for your bill with the peoples money. It is illegal, it is immoral and they do it with impunity. This is a CRIME plain and simple.

This bill was a supplemental spending bill to provide financing for Americans that are in harms way right now.

So how is this money that is directed to support our people in danger going to help them.

1) $24 million for funding for sugar beets.
2) $3 million for funding for sugar cane (goes to one Hawaiian co-op).
3) $20 million for insect infestation damage reimbursements in Nevada, Idaho, and Utah.
4) $2.1 billion for crop production losses.
5) $1.5 billion for livestock production losses.
6) $100 million for Dairy Production Losses.
7) $13 million for Ewe Lamb Replacement and Retention Program.
8) $32 million for Livestock Indemnity Program.
9) $40 million for the Tree Assistance Program.
10) Provision that extends the availability by a year $3.5 million in funding for guided tours of the Capitol.
11) 165.9 million for fisheries disaster relief, funded through NOAA (including $60.4 million for salmon fisheries in the Klamath Basin region).
12) $25 million for asbestos abatement at the Capitol Power Plant.
13) $22.8 million for geothermal research and development.

and this is not the whole list. These are not add ons to the entire budget, just one supplemental spending bill intended to support our troops at war.

I find this despicable behavior. My Senators and Congressman have heard from once a day on this. If this is how they are going to act, I want a recount of the vote, or better yet I want a re-election, right now.

Better yet I want term limits NOW.

Answer 6

It means they offer a congressman millions of dollars to do things in his own state that aren't really important in order to bribe him into voting the way they want on something that is important.

Answer 7

adding earmarks,, for personal agendas,, like a park in one particular state or a clean up of the rivers in another,,,