This would give Members of Congress who are serious about reducing wasteful spending an opportunity to root out pork projects.

But he will lose political stature if he uses the post to promote pork projects for his home state.

"Both parties in Congress," he said, "have wasted scarce defense dollars on unneeded weapons systems and other pork projects."

We will pig out on pork projects for our districts while accusing Democrats of wild spending sprees.

These are not pork projects, these are things the military wanted and needed.

If anything, pork projects are getting more parochial.

Many pork projects may have local value.

"It's such a small issue - the money - when we spend $10 million on pork projects."

Neumann: "They asked me to put in a pork project and I said no.

Conservatives in Congress are watching to see that nobody takes advantage of this crisis to fund their own pork projects.