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Congress makes it more convenient for its members to avoid easy public scrutiny of "free" trips its members receive from folk who… well, want to give congresscritters free trips. Fly the friendly (and unaccountable) skies! <\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Christopher Ducra<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

They really are trying as hard as possible to achieve that 0% approval rating. \ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Congress Quietly Deletes a Key Disclosure of Free Trips Lawmakers Take<\/a>
\n House Ethics reverses decades of precedent as lobbyist-sponsored lawmaker travel expands.
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Congress makes it more convenient for its members to avoid easy public scrutiny of "free" trips its members receive from folk who… well, want to give congresscritters free trips. Fly the friendly (and unaccountable) skies! Reshared post from +Christopher Ducra They really are trying as hard as possible to achieve that 0% approval rating. \ufeff … Continue reading “Traveling for free (and on the QT)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-money-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":322,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/03\/visitations_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":43311,"position":0},"title":"Visitations","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 3-May-03 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"So our old college buds Michelle and Diane are, through returns from separate business trips, in town and staying over. 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