PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Michael Barone weighs in with this observation:

A worthy idea, and one that raises the question, an uncomfortable one surely for many congressmen, of whether voters really value pork barrel projects. Of course some interested parties do, but do most voters? In the course of writing the Almanac of American Politics, I have to read of all the various projects that members bring to their districts. It’s tedious reading after a while.

I suspect that most voters in a district don’t care about the pork, and would be happy without it.