Virtually all the senators and congressmen who voted against the Obama stimulus package went hat in hand to the Federal Government begging for funds for their districts. Some of them contradicting their own positions when they voted. The big names begging for funds included Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
See "Republicans, Democrats Who Criticized Stimulus Wrote Letters Seeking Funds."
For example, Rep. Pete Sessions (R, Tex.) argued that the funds would help create jobs in his district, something he denied when the bill was in Congress. Do only the ethically challenged make it to Congress?
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