When you give the Department of Veterans Affairs half a million dollars, what do you expect the agency to spend it on? Veterans healthcare? Retirement pensions? Employee salaries? Rocks?

If you guessed rocks, congratulations! You win a rock sculpture in an unbuilt VA hospital already $625 million in the red.

While building a new mental health center in Denver, the VA splurged $6.34 million of its budget on art installations–including a $483,000 rock sculpture in a $1.3 million courtyard. The sculpture, made of blocks of stone cut with lasers and stacked, is supposed to invoke “a sense of transformation, rebuilding, and self-investigation.”

Rep. Jeff Miller, the Chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, took to the House floor to discuss the VA’s rampant spending on art. Miller said that this “abusive” spending has caused the agency to spend $625 million over budget on a single hospital. Spending more money on a hospital wouldn’t be such a big deal if the agency was allocating that extra money towards equipment and resources, but Miller said the VA is instead sinking millions into needless artworks and decoration.

“These projects include an art installation on the side of a parking garage that displays quotes by Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt in, wait for it … in Morse code that cost $285,000. It actually lights up,” Miller said.

Despite criticism, Congress voted Wednesday to raise the spending limit on the over budget Denver hospital because the bill also included provisions to extend vital VA programs congressmen did not want to see expire. The Palo Alto VA hospital was estimated to cost $328 million when the project started in the late 1990s. So far, it has cost $1.7 billion. This hospital is shaping up to be the biggest construction failure in the agency’s history.

Miller begrudgingly voted for the bill that raised the hospital budget to keep other programs afloat, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t going to watch the VA spend more money without saying his piece.

“It is simply beyond me why VA would choose to pay to complete the Denver project by cutting medical services and medical facility dollars but not the exorbitant conference spending, or bloated relocation expenses or art,” Miller said.