Federal government, consider this your year-end bonus from Rep. Steve Stivers.

Stivers, R-Upper Arlington, announced last week that he is returning $100,000 from his congressional office budget to the federal treasury. He also returns $700 from each paycheck to pay down the national debt. Finally, he cut his office budget by five percent at the beginning of 2011.

Stivers is not the only lawmaker to cut a check to the government at the end of this year: Politico reported this week that Tea Party Sen. Rand Paul is returning $500,000 to the U.S. Treasury from his own Senate office budget.

Stivers campaigned in part on a platform to reduce government spending. In a statement announcing the returned money, he said Congress must learn to do "more with less."