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Omega-News - House "reformers" resist ban on travel bribery
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House "reformers" resist ban on travel bribery
Boston Globe
02/06/06
The 17 members of Congress who went to Dublin on an Aspen Institute-paid trip last summer got a walking tour of the city. They also spent six or seven hours each of the four days in discussions with scholars and policy makers about US relations with Europe and Russia. It was not quite the same as the itinerary for trips arranged by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, when golf at St. Andrews's famed course in Scotland was the highlight. But House Speaker Dennis Hastert, seeking cover for Republicans in a growing influence-peddling scandal, has proposed banning all such trips, whether they are intended to improve lawmakers' knowledge of an issue or their putting skills. His idea is running into resistance, even from his second-in-command. The new House majority leader, Representative John Boehner, Republican of Ohio, defends privately funded travel as essential and suggests continuing to allow the trips if they meet House rules...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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