forensic scrutiny of these requests if that is the thing that you think is the problem with the stimulus to begin with. you shouldn't just be passings letters out the door with your signature saying $21 million here, $21 million there, what the heck. >> isn't that the point, crystal? if you were adamantly opposed to the stimulus, you're a member of congress, you think it's wrong, you think it's a waste, you think it's whatever his reasoning was. wouldn't your staff know that? >> you would certainly think so. >> so when a letter is brought in to ask for it, you would say that's against the policy of our congressman? >> you would think so. it seems like congressman ryan was trying to have it both ways. i remember so many republicans who would rail publicly about the stimulus to play to the national audience and wear the mantle of the fiscal conservative would be happy to show up to the ribbon cuttings at home when they were