The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.

Born in Jackson Michigan Chocola is the graduated from the Hillsdale College Thomas M. He defeated former Mishawaka Marian School Board President Joe Donnelly in 2004 and lost in a rematch in 2006. House defeating former Democratic congresswoman Jill Long Thompson.