Chris Chocola Quotes

Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national priorities.

We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.

The Pig Book

Those members of Congress who want to bring back pork to their districts should stand up proudly and be counted.

George W. Bush is a big spender…. When Congress sends up a bill with big. fat, crackling pork, he says, “Where’s the barbecue sauce?”

The root of most all problems we have today is the uncontrollable appetite of politicians in Washington to dish it out.

I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.

I don't disagree with Senator McCain when he talks about the earmark process.

The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.

Each year Citizens Against Government Waste releases the 'Congressional Pig Book.' Outrage over spending for shrimp on treadmills, combating Goth culture studies, bridges to nowhere, etc. ensues for about a week, and then the waste continues.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.

There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.

The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.

It was frightful and almost incredible…that any government should go a—hunting to the uttermost ends of the earth to find means and opportunities of squandering its treasure…for no conceivable purpose of policy.

There's more pork barrel than strategic need to the Galaxy.

Congressmen have their noses right in the trough and they're slurping it up for their districts at the expense of all the taxpayers.

It is in the committee that the dirty work is done ... away from the many-eyed scrutiny of the rest of Congress and the public ... special interest legislation usually originates in the committee room.