Nonsense, Rep. Reinbold.  You get the same amount of per diem every month deposited into your account.  When you got back from Europe, why didn't it occur to you that you should have received less, since you had not been working in Juneau?  Being a "freshman" has nothing to do with seeing you got more money that you were entitled to.

So either you don't check your bank accounts -- which means you have no business voting on ways to address Alaska's fiscal problems -- or you knew you got more money than you should have. 

But then you get to the truth - you were paying rent in Juneau and you thought you deserved the money.