CHANGE! (Updated)

Reading about how His Imperial Majesty's stimulus money was going to congressional districts that don't exist--North Dakota has ONE district for the entire state, but recovery.gov says that money went to NoDak's ten or so districts; New Hampshire has two districts, but was credited with a dozen or more--I thought I'd look and see what they were claiming for Washington AC.

No need, the Evergreen Freedom Foundation is already on the job:

Washington state abounds with phantom Congressional districts per government Web site
Posted by Piper Scott - November 17, 2009

Citizens and taxpayers in Washington’s 39th Congressional District would be outraged to know that over $300,000 in federal stimulus funds were spent without a single job being created. They would be if Washington had a 39th District, which it doesn’t – it only has nine districts in total (see the map at left).

But according to Recovery.gov, the federal government’s Web site that supposedly tracks the spending of stimulus dollars and the resulting job-creation numbers, the state of Washington has twice as many Congressional districts as current law allows. And by reading between the lines – if there’s a 39th District, then there must be 38 others – the state has five times as many Districts.

This includes the oddly numbered 00 Congressional District where three jobs were created by spending $2.25 million. There’s no truth to the rumor that the Double-0 Congressional seat is currently held by a colleague of Britain’s famous 007 spy, James Bond.

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Washington isn’t alone. According to data compiled by Watchdog investigative reporters across the nation, Congress is one crowded place – Recovery.gov has unilaterally doubled the size of the House of Representatives and declared Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Washington, D.C. to be states since they all have multitudes of Congressional districts.

For example, in the Northern Mariana Islands' 99^th Congressional District, 142.6 jobs were created through the expenditure of almost $35.7 million. Unique to this new state is the interestingly unnumbered “congressional district” that saw $350,000 spent without the creation of any jobs.

Transparency.  Apparently, it's what's for breakfast, since it sure doesn't seem to be for government...

UPDATE:
Found the link to the full report at Cap'n Bob & The Damsel:

$6.4 Billion Stimulus Goes to Phantom Districts
By Bill McMorris on November 17, 2009
Just how big is the stimulus package? Well for one, it has doubled the size of the House of Representatives, according to recovery.gov, which says that funds were distributed to 440 congressional districts that do not exist

The Obama (mis)Administration!  Too Big To Fail!