This makes me ill. $5.1 million could be used to help so many it a variety of ways. Food for then hungry. Books for kids struggling to read. Health care. Housing. On and on and on.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.