Pork-Barrel Legislation

question 3

Multiple Choice

Pork-barrel legislation

• A) deals with specific projects and their location within a particular congressional district.
• B) deals with specific agricultural subsidies.
• C) funds efforts to increase the levels of America's meat exports.
• D) grants a special privilege to a person named in the bill.
• E) orders state governments to implement a program without providing funding for doing so.

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