In interviews, some voters said they were worried that the money would go to pork-barrel projects.

And there is little money for pork-barrel projects as rewards.

"It was a pork-barrel project from the very beginning."

But critics complained that the acts were full of pork-barrel projects.

More than $1 billion was siphoned from that agency's budget to pay for the B-2 and other pork-barrel projects.

This project always comes up in Washington whenever somebody wants to complain about pork-barrel projects.

"This is the last place where this kind of pork-barrel project should go," she said.

Member items have come under attack as little more than pork-barrel projects intended to increase legislators' influence.

Much of that will go for local pork-barrel projects.

These accounts amount to $200 million each year to finance a long list of pork-barrel projects across the state.