WEDNESDAY: Not to be outgunked.

As BP works on a relief well that they hope will be completed by the weekend, China is dealing with its largest oil spill in history, leading to several beaches being closed along the Yellow Sea. While China respects the Gulf oil spill, they have made it clear that they are determined to have the largest and most vibrant oil spill in the world. US officials, worried about keeping their own environmental mess active, are considering borrowing spill from the Chinese, but worry about future generations being stuck with the clean-up.

A new report details exactly what the House of Representatives is spending money on with their Members Representational Allowances, the cash they receive to operate their offices in exchange for vacuuming and raking leaves. Here is a breakdown of a few of the findings over a nine month period:

$11 million was spent on newspapers, which came as a surprise to newspaper publishers who could have sworn they stopped printing anything a couple years ago.

$604 thousand was spent on bottled water, although that was just for the office plants.

$565,373 was spent on carpeting, mainly to replace sections that had been sullied with blood, urine, semen and Nancy Pelosi's Haagen-Dazs drippings.

$18 million was spent on computer hardware, $5.3 million was spent on computer software, and $2 million was spent on computer Wear-ware, a popular line of decorative monitor sleeves designed by Vera Wang.