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To: Mongo2116 who wrote (892477)	10/8/2015 9:02:19 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575338

all bills are like that. All the greater reason to vote against many of them. Both to not push the pork, and to discourage adding quite as much to the next bill. That is if it was true which it isn't. Pork ladden bills are common but not universal. Emergency bills tend to get loaded up more then other bills but Sandy was more loaded up then most emergency bills. road construction is not pork Historically much of it has been, both by the definition of pork as earmarked funds in a bill, and to an extent by the definition of pork as wasteful spending. Building roads is useful, but there is a huge amount of waste and inflated cost involved.