Thursday, July 02, 2009

Congress's Travel Tab Swells - WSJ.com

WASHINGTON -- Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.

The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That's a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.

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  1. Remember when Congress chastized the Big Three CEOs for flying in their private planes to congressional hearings?
    Read my take on it and stick around for more good content.
    libertarianhumor[dot]com/2009/07/02/congress/

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