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Meanwhile, Fallin is absolutely correct to demand that the state’s higher education system deal with the debilitating legion of college campuses created by pork-barrel legislation over the decades.

Space satellites, B-52s, and vital foreign aid seem to have taken a secondary role to new Senate offices and pork-barrel legislation.

This sure lifetime reward, argues Mr. Forbes, will give Congressmen "social security" that will enable them to stand up against their constituents' demands for pork-barrel legislation, their colleagues' schemes for political logrolling, look at the problems of lawmaking from a national instead of a sectional or partisan point of view.

Similarly, the right to recommend-or even to enact-legislation on pensions, on river and harbor appropriations, or what not, may be delegated to an appointed body responsible only to the Congress at large; and all the "pork-barrel" legislation, which the better class of legislators hate, but which is forced upon them by the threat of political ruin, may be obviated.