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How Congress Rolls: House Spends $1.4 Million Per Month on Travel
By Ernie Smith - AOL News(July 21) -- It's a truth of political life (not to mention, yes, an unforgivable bastardization of a classic TV catchphrase): Have seat in Congress, will travel. As if your job depends on it. Because it very well might. Full Report How Congress Spent Your $1 Billion Food Tab: $604K on Bottled Water Interns and Pages: $4.4 Million News and Research: $1.2 Million Travel: $1.4 Million a Month Congress Is a PC: Just $22K on Apple About This Series But as understandable as the House's peregrination is, it can also get expensive, as AOL News found when we crunched the numbers we dug up from the ...
Congress' Expense Report: $4.4 Million for House Interns and Pages
By Ernie Smith - AOL News(July 21) -- Nice work, if you can get it. But chances are you can't, unless you happen to still be in school. Full Report How Congress Spent Your $1 Billion Food Tab: $604K on Bottled Water Interns and Pages: $4.4 Million News and Research: $1.2 Million Travel: $1.4 Million a Month Congress Is a PC: Just $22K on Apple About This Series The work in question is a paid House internship or page position (annual stipend: $21,134), and it's among the reams of HR-related items in the searchable database that the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation has created from the House's Statement of ...
Congress' Old-Media Habit: $1.2 Million a Month on News and Research
By Ernie Smith - AOL News(July 21) -- One group of people not contributing to the erosion of paid newspaper subscriptions: our duly elected representatives and their staffs. The hundreds of line items for old-media purchases are among the many clues to Congress' news habits that AOL News spotted in its close reading of the House's last three Statement of Disbursements. Collecting all the invoices generated by Congress every three months, it was made available in digital form for the first time in December. Following the most recent update in June, the House's expenditures for the last six months of 2009 and the ...
Congress' Food Tab: $604,000 for Bottled Water, $152 at Quiznos
By Ernie Smith - AOL News(July 21) -- Crave ribs? Bagels and coffee or doughnuts? Seafood, subs or Chinese? So does Congress! House members spent part of their Members Representational Allowances on these items -- and more -- during the nine-month period between late 2009 and early 2010 covered by the Sunlight Foundation's House Expenditure Reports Database. The info is highly enlightening, revealing, for instance, the popularity of Chantilly Donut's sinkers; what it costs to feed hungry congressional pages; and how lucrative it can be to own a part of the cottage industry of keeping our duly elected representatives ...
Pennsylvania Special Election Could Signal Midterm Results
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyRepublicans seem to have the wind at their backs nationally, but will it translate into a win in Pennsylvania to fill the seat left open by the death of Democrat John Murtha? Mark Critz, a former Murtha aide, and Tim Burns, a Republican businessman, are competing for the job Murtha held from 1974, when he narrowly won a special election, until last February. Recent polls show the race is neck and neck. As is always the case with special elections, turnout is what matters, and it's hard to predict turnout in the 12th Congressional District, where voters had been electing Murtha for ...
Sarah Palin's House Hit List: No Money to Favored Candidates So Far
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailySarah Palin put the bull's-eye on 20 U.S. House races on her Facebook page last month, but didn't donate to favored candidates in those districts during the first quarter of the year. Although her SarahPAC took in $400,000 in the first quarter and had more than $900,000 in the bank, it gave only $7,500 to candidates between January and the end of March, plus an additional $2,000 to two other PACs. None went to Republicans in the races she targeted. Instead, she gave to $2,500 to Wisconsin House candidate Sean Duffy, $2,000 to Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul, and $1,000 each to Florida ...
Obama: Washington D.C. Deserves Full Voting Member of U.S. House
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyOn the anniversary of the day Abraham Lincoln freed slaves living in the nation's capital, President Obama called on Congress to grant a full vote to the Washington, D.C., "delegate" in the House of Representatives. That delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, was part of planned events Friday in Washington honoring what is known as "D.C. Emancipation Day." Obama said he was proud that an original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation -- issued by Lincoln nine months after the 1862 Washington document -- now hangs in the Oval Office. The issue of D.C. Statehood -- or alternatively of adding members ...
One More Democrat, Rep. Ted Deutch, Joins the House
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) became the newest member of the House of Representatives Thursday when he was sworn in to replace Rep. Robert Wexler, the Democrat who left the House last year to run a think tank. Deutch, a 44-year-old attorney, won a special election in the Boca Raton, Fla., district Tuesday with 62 percent of the vote. Democrats now outnumber Republicans 254 to 177, and House leaders pointed to Deutch's victory as an endorsement of the health care reform bill passed by Congress this year. Here is Deutch's his full statement upon being sworn in: "This is a truly humbling day and ...
House Passes Final Health Care Bill, 220 to 207
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe U.S. House of Representatives voted 220 to 207 on Thursday night to give final approval to the reconciliation portion of the health care reform bill, sending the measure to President Obama for his signature. The Senate passed the bill earlier Thursday 56 to 43. Although Obama signed the main $871 billion health care reform bill into law Tuesday, the Senate still had to pass the package of "fixes" to that measure in the reconciliation bill. The changes were demanded by House Democrats in exchange for supporting the Senate version of health reform in a vote on Sunday afternoon. Included ...
Congress Completes Health Care Overhaul
By not in system - AOL News(March 25) -- The U.S. House of Representatives voted 220 to 207 on Thursday night to give final approval to the reconciliation portion of the health care reform bill, sending the measure to President Obama for his signature. ...
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