Congress: What recession?
July 2nd 2009 16:21
It appears that the dire financial straits aren't having an impact on Congressional travel:
I hope they enjoy themselves. They deserve those trips after all the hard work they've done to make the nation prosperous. They shouldn't worry about us rubes out here in the hinterlands. We live to serve them and fund their extravagant junkets, right?
It's just too bad that those trips aren't one way. At least that would be a worthy expenditure.
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.
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.
I hope they enjoy themselves. They deserve those trips after all the hard work they've done to make the nation prosperous. They shouldn't worry about us rubes out here in the hinterlands. We live to serve them and fund their extravagant junkets, right?
It's just too bad that those trips aren't one way. At least that would be a worthy expenditure.
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