Is Congress Worth $150 Million PER HOUR?

So, what do the members of Congress do during the relatively few hours each year that Congress is in session? They spend hundreds of millions of dollars per hour (from Special Report):

This past Monday was "Tax Freedom Day" — marking the day you finally stop working to pay your taxes for the year. Now the National Taxpayer Union has released its latest study of congressional spending — and notes that lawmakers voted to spend an average of more than $150 million of your money every hour they were in session during 2005 and 2006.

The average representative supported almost $290 billion in net spending increases — the average senator $357 billion. But the good news — both of those figures are declines of about 25 percent from the previous session of Congress.

We're definitely not getting our money's worth.