This CNN feature focuses on pork barrel spending in Congress; from this site you can access the nine other articles in this series.

This organization seeks to investigate questions of waste, fraud and abuse in all federal agencies.

Senator John McCain's web site highlights examples of what he defines as pork barrel spending.

Pork barrel legislation is explained here at the University of Michigan's Documents Center.

This commentary from the Cato Institute, a nonpartisan public policy research foundation, discusses the 1998 Supreme Court ruling on line item veto, effecting "pork barrel" spending.

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