be well served to make this more freighters -- transparent. you get rid of earmarks, you get rid of a lot of necessary things. >> i don't wants to research potatoes. >> i disagree with that. when you start talking about pork and all these other nonessential projects taking place, i believe that all of us need to sacrifice one way or the other. i'm not sure -- i know the president's telling us the economy is back and everything's great and markets are up but you have people sacrificing and people struggling. do we need to pay a half million dollars for snake research. >> i thoughts he said this was the end of pork. >> a lot of congressmen and senators are against pork and then they say i'll take just this one. it's buying votes for the constituents. mandatory spending, defense, i get t police, roads, i get it, but this stuff is hey, vote for me, i'm going to get that bridge