This Do-Nothing Congress Is Junketing Like Mad

$6 million

Amount spent in 2013 by members of Congress and their staff for nearly 1900 trips, breaking the record for the most privately sponsored travel since rules were tightened in 2007. By comparison the previous post-reform high was 2011, when privately financed travel cost $5.8 million for 1600 trips, according to Legistorm.

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