Many of the very congressmen who voted to defund ALS research have taken part in the ALS ice bucket challenge — and Illinois Republican Adam Kinzinger (R-IL,16) is one of them.

As the Huffington Post points out, at least 16 lawmakers who voted for 2011's Budget Control Act, which was a stopgap measure designed to prevent the nation's government from going into default, have participated in the ALS ice bucket challenge. The bill called for a 5 percent cut to a number of agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, and was part of a deal to get a hike in the debt ceiling passed.

As a result, the NIH had to cut $1.55 billion from its departments, including the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, which saw its budget slashed by $92 million in fiscal year 2012. ALS research funding was cut $5 million, going from $44 million to $39 million. NIH ALS research was able to regain $1 million in funding following the passage of a federal budget compromise in 2014. As the HuffPost reports, the $4 million funding gap between current funding levels and those prior to sequestration could have been closed with supplemental funding, but that has not happened. 

The congressmen who have taken the ice bucket challenge, but also voted for cuts that negatively affected ALS research funding levels include:

John Barrow (D-Ga.) 
Timothy Bishop (D-N.Y.) 
Robert Brady (D-Penn.)
John Carney (D-Del.) 
David Cicilline (D-R.I.)
Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) 
Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) 
Jim Langevin (D-R.I.)
Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.) 
Jim Himes (D-Conn.) 
Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) 
Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.) 
Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) 
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) 
Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) 
Ed Perlmutter (D-Co.) 

As the HuffPost notes, the lawmakers may not have supported all of the cuts mandated by the sequester. But if Congress had been able to reach a budget deal that did not call for across-the-board reductions to a list agencies, federal spending cuts could have been made in more of an educated, and less haphazard, manner.

On Wednesday, Michigan congressman John Dingell (D-MI,12), who voted in favor of the Budget Control Act, called Republicans out over Twitter for their role in essentially strong-arming Congress into a deal that called for billions of dollars in cuts to the NIH:

The ice bucket challenge has raised more than $31 million thus far, but the funding is going to the ALS Foundation, not the NIH, the latter of which continues to struggle with inadequate federal funding.