Posted on 05/23/2014 11:42:57 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
According to the Congressional Record, where trip details including cost are listed, Webber has traveled with Cochran at taxpayer expense to 42 countries across five continents since 2002.
For example, Cochran and Webber traveled eight times to France, five times to Italy, four times to Israel, and twice to Japan.
The full list of countries they traveled to includes: Italy, France, Brussels, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Hungary, Russia, Norway, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Malta, Austria, and Czech Republic in Europe; Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile in South America; Guatemala, and Mexico in North and Central America; Japan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Republic of the Philippines, and South Korea in Asia; Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Azerbaijan, Oman, and United Arab Emirates in the Middle East, to Morocco; and Egypt, Cape Verde, and South Africa in Africa.
Other documents show that in 2005 and 2007, the Wine Institute, a trade association that represents the California wine industry, paid for Cochran's and Webber's travel to Sonoma, California for what a disclosure form described as a fact-finding program on issues of importance to the wine industry. No other aides attended the trip.
The Congressional Record lists 33 trips that Cochran and Webber attended together. According to that record, the cost to the American taxpayer of Webber's travel was at least $155,000.
Cochran staffers attended many of the trips with him and Webber, as well. For example, Stewart Holmes, who works at the Senate Appropriations Committee for Cochran and formerly advised him on intelligence and national security issues in his
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We could wish that such conduct by his secretary (and lover?) is the worst we ever saw from Congress.
Did she need to go all those places? Dunno. I’d imagine he had some sort of business for her to carry out to at least make it pro forma. But in this internet age, a secretary seems less and less necessary, or she could stay in one place and still assist.
Brussels is a country. Who knew?
“would you like to go upstairs?” /very obscure
How about info on how many “family members” barry schleps around the world at tax payers expense.
I’m sitting here trying think of a good reason why any congressman or senator should ever have to travel outside the US.
Hey Cotton, can you post the ratings for Cochran on this thread?
It’s not so much the foreign travel as the two trips, for two, to California wine country to look into producing wine. Because Mississippi has such a thriving wine industry...
That is so perfect.
Cochran (MS) - 06/03/14 - 54% (Average) - 57% (Heritage) - 56% (CFG) - 60% (ACU) - 41% (FreedomWorks)
Does Travis Childers have a rating for his time in DC?
Just asking...
His ACU ratings for 2009 and 2010 were 40 and 35.
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