Posted on 07/02/2009 2:57:24 PM PDT by Justaham
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.
The cost of so-called congressional delegations, known among lawmakers as "codels," has risen nearly 70% since 2005, when an influence-peddling scandal led to a ban on travel funded by lobbyists, according to the data.
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I mean “Congress”, not “Congres”.
They don’t deserve two s’s unless you are referring to Hitler’s SS.
CongreSS
more living well on the taxpayers money.
i can’t imagine how even 5% of this could be justified,
Didn’t you read post #2?
This is like the teenagers you had house sit while you are on vacation found your ATM card and the keys to the liquor cabinet.
Economy’s in the tank, unemployment is up, I cancelled my European vacation this summer, but please Congress, by all means, raise my taxes, take my healthcare and have some fun travelling around the world on my dime.
great post!!
The only ones who can clean up the mess in Washington are informed and concerned voters.
Maybe, if we are lucky, those travel destinations will keep them.
REPEAL the 17th Amendment and reinstate Article 1 Section 3 of the Constitution.
Congress is supposed to be an UNPAID part time Volunteer position.
Maybe the only way to bring the USofA back to its roots is a coup. How else to remove EVERYONE in the Federal Government and replace them according to the US Constitution?
Maybe they are scouting out “safe havens” somewhere else for when TSHTF!!!
Don’t want to be stuck here with the angry mobs.
Traitors.
I am beginning to think in those terms too. What do we need to do to get more on this bandwagon?
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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PIGS!!!!!!!!!! ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep sending those tax dollars in so they can travel at our expense. This sh*t is out of control. Maybe I just won’t pay my estimated this quarter, or next quarter or the next and tell them to KMA.
BTTT !
Thanks for the heads up. Not sure how to tie this to Obama- yet.
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