Sen. Tom Coburn wonders why the federal stimulus package is paying for a $300,000 parking lot in the Guilford County town of Summerfield.

The Summerfield parking lot makes the Oklahoma Republican’s list of 100 questionable projects being financed by the stimulus package passed by Congress earlier this year, Rob Christensen reports.

The report, released Tuesday, notes that the federal government is picking up the tab for a project that was already  in the town’s budget.

"The way I looked at it is it didn’t really matter how you felt about the stimulus package, which is a reality," the report quotes Town Manager Michael Brandt. "I thought we might as well seek some benefit...If I don’t go for it, somebody else will."

Also on Coburn’s list was the town of Washington N.C. which is using $40,234 grant to hire a project-funding manager whose job is to get more stimulus money.