I'm not sure how much Denny Hastert brought home for Fermi; I associated him more with Caterpillar and transportation research than anything else. Kind of like how Judy Biggert (her district includes Argonne Nat'l Lab, she's on the House Committee on Science and Technology, and Subcommittees on Energy and Environment & on Technology and Innovation) didn't seem to get us very much.

OTOH, Pete Domenici is a strong advocate for Sandia and Los Alamos, and Larry Craig does the same for Idaho Nat'l Lab, so it's not always that way.