Lawmakers from both political parties expressed outrage today about Georgia's use of federal stimulus money to lure the national headquarters of NCR Corporation away from Dayton, a move announced on Tuesday that will cost Ohio approximately 1,300 jobs.

The company said the City of Columbus, Georgia, will use federal stimulus dollars to buy a building where NCR will manufacture ATM machines. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer newspaper in Georgia reported the city wants $5.5 million in federal money for the purchase.

Republicans including House GOP Leader John Boehner and GOP gubernatorial candidate John Kasich of Westerville blasted Democrats for backing a federal stimulus package that could be used to finance interstate job poaching.

"The use of stimulus funds means that Ohio taxpayers were forced to pay for NCR's move to Georgia," said State GOP Sen. Jon Husted of Kettering. "I hope our federal officials will act quickly to stop this expenditure of tax dollars that would allow one state to lure away jobs from another."

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democat from Avon, wrote a letter to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke that urged him to keep economic recovery money from being used to transfer jobs between states.

"Stimulus funds should not be used in a manner that benefits one local economy at the expense of another," Brown said in the letter.