WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed into law a sweeping housing rescue package allowing Republican members of the senate to accept up to $250,000 in home improvements in exchange for their support on legislation. The bill was hailed by Alaska's Ted Stevens, (pictured left) the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, who was recently featured on 'America's Home Makeover' where lobbyists and contractors jacked up the senator's mountainside house on stilts and added a new first floor, with two bedrooms and a bathroom in exchange for the senator's support on several bills. Stevens denied that the exorbitant remodeling influenced his votes saying, "I would have supported that legislation in exchange for a Winnebago, a lavish junket or unmarked bills in the low 5 figures. That, my friends, is democracy in action."
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