This year marks Harold “Hal” Rogers’s twenty-first consecutive electoral victory in Kentucky’s Fifth Congressional District, making him the secondlongest-serving Republican in Congress. He rode into office on the wave of the Reagan Revolution in 1980, and the governing style he’s employed in the Fifth District—which covers the rural, mountainous, Appalachian region of southeastern Kentucky—can mostly be described as Reaganite: pro–War on Drugs, pro–prison expansion, anti-regulation of extractive industries, and pro-family. The congressman has had to improvise a little over the years in response to changes in the economy and political system, but he’s wellpositioned to do so: as a former chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, the elite “College of Cardinals” that manages the government’s budget, and the ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, he’s one of the most influential men in Washington. Rogers has extraordinary discretion over where and how the government exercises power domestically and overseas, especially within the border regions; he can coerce other lawmakers to support his policies by withholding funding; and, crucially, he can funnel tons of “pork” back to his home district

今年是哈罗德·“哈尔”·罗杰斯（Harold Rogers）在肯塔基州第五国会区的二十一次连续选举胜利，使他成为国会任职时间第二长的共和党人。他在1980年里根革命浪潮中上任，而他在第五区所用的执政风格（涵盖肯塔基州东南部的农村，山区，阿巴拉契亚地区）大体上可以说是里根派：支持毒品的战争，有利于监狱的扩张，对采掘业的反监管以及亲家庭。多年来，这位国会议员不得不即兴做出一些回应，以适应经济和政治制度的变化，但是他这样做的条件很好：作为众议院拨款委员会的前主席，管理政府政策的精英“红衣主教学院”预算，他还是众议院拨款小组委员会国家和对外行动委员会的排名成员，他是华盛顿州最具影响力的人之一。罗杰斯（Rogers）对于政府在国内和海外（特别是在边境地区）在何处以及如何行使权力具有非凡的酌处权。他可以通过扣留资金来迫使其他议员支持他的政策；而且，至关重要的是，他可以将大量“猪肉”汇回他的家乡