It’s been a crazy week in Congress.

Let’s start Thursday, when Rep. Paul Broun, R-Athens, dropped an amendment to cancel funding for a new National Climate Service. The agency would be redundant since we already have a National Weather Service, he said. The failed amendment sparked a chain of events that led to Rep. Jack Kingston doing his best Ginuwine impression.

(It would be funnier if I could embed the video but the yootoobz won’t let me, so here’s the link.)

Broun makes a compelling cases that the National Climate Service is, in fact, unnecessary spending. The liberal Web site Daily Kos will give you the other side of the story.

Kos also links to a subscription-only article citing Broun’s amendment as one of more than 100 offered by Republicans and intended to stall the a large appropriations bill’s progress that prompted Democrats to institute new rules limiting debate.

The change had Broun steaming mad last week, but it succeeded in speeding up the process. Under the new rules, the House voted a record 53 times Friday. Once the spending bill was approved as Republicans tried to offer yet another amendment, the acting speaker abruptly adjourned, leaving Broun “screaming at an empty Speaker’s chair, trying to gain the attention of a presiding officer that wasn’t there,” according to Fox News.

But Broun was actually the only Republican able to get an amendment attached to the spending bill. His office said he moved to cut $100,000 for a little-used bicycle-lending program for Hill staffers. That didn’t stop him from pitching a fit in a press release.

“This week, the American people have been muzzled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi,” he said. “Liberal leaders in this Congress have now given Republicans a first-hand experience on what it’s like to work under a dictatorship. The American people do not deserve to be treated like dogs without a voice and I encourage them to stand up and tell the Congressional liberal leadership that they will not heel, play dead, or roll over for this authoritarian agenda.”

I wish to God I could find video of this, but a D.C. source told me Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Savannah, got in on the bike action, too. At one point, he threw his hands in the air and said “Ride me! Ride me!”

(And now I can’t find the Smiths video where Morrissey rides his bike all over the place. YouTube, I am so very, very disappointed in you.)

That outburst is presumably what brought Kingston to the attention of teen idol Miley Cyrus. The Savannah television station WTOC reported that he was one of the 600 extras on the Tybee Island set of Cyrus' new movie “The Last Song.”

It’s not all fun and games for Kingston, though. He did find time in the past week to secure $400,000 for agricultural water-conservation research at the University of Georgia, $178,000 for UGA to fight the potato blight that starved millions of Irishmen 150 years ago and $1 million to for research into increasing food yield and agricultural efficiency at UGA’s Tifton campus.

Thanks to his no-earmarks pledge, that’s more than we can say for Broun.

Blake.aued@onlineathens.com