Once a selling point for lawmakers, congressionally directed spending – otherwise known as earmarks or “pork barrel” projects – is becoming a liability for many incumbents in Campaign 2010.

曾经是立法者的卖点，国会直拨开支，另一种说法是计划开支或者分肥计划，现在成为许多在任议员2010竞选的责任。

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Jim DeMint, a senator from South Carolina, wants his colleagues to adopt a voluntary ban on earmarks, a form of pork-barrel spending particularly reviled by fiscal hawks.

来自南卡罗来纳州的参议员吉姆戴明特想要他的同事能够针对专款专用有所自律，这里的专款是指一种被财政鹰派人物大加漫骂的地方建设经费。

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It's a lot more than $18 billion in pork-barrel spending.

它远比180亿美元的建设经费花销多。

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"I know he does have a great record for not being a pork barrel spending freak like some of the other people in the Senate and the House, " he said.

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Mr Mori, a pork-barrel politician, is unlikely to back full-scale bank reform in his present, vulnerable state.

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