The Obama administration Thursday defended reports of federal stimulus money being spent in Pennsylvania districts that don't exist.

Recipients report stimulus money to a web site, and the information is transferred to the recovery.gov website, generally without review.

Pennsylvania has 19 districts, but several other districts reported receiving stimulus money recently.

---

00th District: $6,729,345
96th District: $1,960,179
21st District: $1,952,810
23rd District: $1,487.259
65th District: $ 474,837

---

Representative Bill Shuster, a republican from the 9th district was not happy about the errors.

He said, "There's claims they're creating jobs and they really can't prove that. And now with the mistakes that they found they're saying, 'Oh it's a big program so there are going to be mistakes.' Well, that's the same group of people that want to turn over health care to the government."

Sen. Robert Casey, a democrat from Pennsylvania, acknowledged that the errors are troubling, but he thinks the main purpose of the money should remain the priority.

"Don't think a mistake like that should take our focus off what we have to do here. We have to make sure recovery dollars get to communities in Pennsylvania to create jobs, and to get our economy out of the ditch," said Sen. Casey.

The White House said human error is likely to blame, with omissions or typographical errors. The White House said it works to correct errors as soon as they are discovered.