Originally Posted by Sly

An excuse for what?

I've seen figures like that before. I saw something about Nancy Pelosi and her flower expenditures. This article went on and on and on about how Nancy spent all of this money on flowers. It ended up being one semi-basic bouquet for $100 a week that came out of her office discretionary budget. So instead of spending $100 a week on paper, yes, she chose to add some flowers to her office to make it look nice. So what?

Put things in perspective and complain about real issues. You are complaining about 435 members of Congress and their staffs (what are we talking, five people at least?) spending $2 million in what... four months? So that's $500 a month, spread out between 435 congressmen (plus staff) which comes down to a little over $1000 a month. Break that down and we had $250 a week to cover office drinks, maybe some snacks, some water, food for guests, etc. etc. That's nothing.