Congressional Travel

Congressional spending on foreign trips is reportedly soaring. An analysis of 60,000 travel records by the Wall Street Journal shows the cost has nearly tripled since 2001, and increased almost tenfold since 1995.

The report says lawmakers racked up $13 million worth of overseas travel in 2008. That's a 50 percent increase since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.

Despite the economic downturn, taxpayers picked up the tab for congressional travel to such hot spots as the Virgin Islands and Australia's Great Barrier Reef — as well as war zone visits to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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