Congress’s Travel Tab Swells By BRODY MULLINS and T.W. FARNAM

The Bear on Jul 03 2009 at 7:00 am | Filed under: Culture of Corruption Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos 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... [read full story]                    

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