According to the Recovery.gov Montana website, over $4.7 million was spent in Montana’s 2nd Congressional district. The main problem is, of course, Montana only has one at-large Congressman.

The break down on Montana's Recovery Act Spending

Hopefully this is just bad book keeping, but as I dive further, I’ll post updates.

edit 4pm: Waiting for comment from Rehberg’s office.

update 4:23pm: Other states are having the same problem.

update 5pm: Missouri project listed as MT project.  University system lists Congressional District as CD00.  Thanks to John Bacino for these ones, more as I have time to go over the reports.

update 10:10pm: Police officer for the Ft. Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes, $0, 1 job? – CD5;  $7500 for gravel delivery from the Dept. of Interior – CD14; Culvert Replacement in Dillon – CD11; $3200 for an energy efficient “office air conditioner” in Malta & 4800 for a Heater – CD04

…so says Peter Orszag, Obama’s Budget Director.

According to CNN’s interview, Orszag claims that “the White House had little choice but to support the $410 billion omnibus spending bill which it inherited from the previous administration.”

That sounds an awful lot like an easy cop out to hard promises made on the campaign trail: “ …we can no longer accept an earmarks process in which many of the projects being funded fail to address the real needs of our country.”