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- Source: Center for Public Integrity
- Date: January 03, 2007
- URL: Read the story
- Bylines:
Helena Bengtsson ,
Robert Brodsky
- Topics:
Federal Government ,
Congress
- Data Types:
Federal Data
- Description/Excerpt: As the House of Representatives prepares to vote Thursday on sweeping changes to its gift and travel rules, new data show that members of Congress and their aides are accepting privately funded trips at a precipitously declining rate.
According to travel disclosure forms for a one-year span ending June 30, 2006, obtained by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and analyzed by the Center for Public Integrity, corporations, trade groups and nonprofits spent more than $5.4 million to send lawmakers and congressional staffers on roughly 2,700 trips. During the previous one-year period, sponsors spent nearly twice as much - more than $10.3 million - on about 4,700 trips.
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