Brownback tops private-paid travel listThe senator's trips were worth more

Posted on Sat, Mar. 11, 2006

Brownback tops private-paid travel listThe senator's trips were worth more than $21,400, higher than any other Kansas lawmaker.
BY SAM HANANEL
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - When Sen. Sam Brownback flew to San Antonio last year for religious broadcaster Pat Robertson's 75th birthday party, a conservative advocacy group picked up the $10,000 tab for a chartered plane and helicopter flight.
In all, the Kansas Republican took 10 privately funded trips in 2005 worth more than $21,400, a review of Senate records found.

Brownback's travels topped all members of the Kansas delegation in number and cost of the trips. The state's senior senator, Republican Pat Roberts, was second with two trips costing $9,517.

In all, the Kansas Republican took 10 privately funded trips in 2005 worth more than $21,400, a review of Senate records found.
Brownback's travels topped all members of the Kansas delegation in number and cost of the trips. The state's senior senator, Republican Pat Roberts, was second with two trips costing $9,517.
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http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/state/14073533.htm



Sam Brownback

this Sen. pay for his own. What a bunch. They forever use people and think it is OK.

this pubs sure love their perks! :puke:

.........Privately funded travel could be banned or limited under legislation being considered in the wake of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, which involved millions of dollars from Abramoff's clients going to win friends and buy influence on Capitol Hill.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2160043

The drive for a tighter lobbying law, just two months ago a major priority on Capitol Hill, is losing momentum...

What an ass-wipe

Brownback, Ass-wipe! Is that a pun?

a plane did he fly on?-


....WASHINGTON - When Sen. Sam Brownback flew to San Antonio last year for religious broadcaster Pat Robertson's 75th birthday party, a conservative advocacy group picked up the $10,000 tab for a chartered plane and helicopter flight.
In all, the Kansas Republican took 10 privately funded trips in 2005 worth more than $21,400, a review of Senate records found.

.....Privately funded travel could be banned or limited under legislation being considered in the wake of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, which involved millions of dollars from Abramoff's clients going to win friends and buy influence on Capitol Hill.

"On all of those trips, I felt like they were legitimate functions," Brownback said in an interview. "I was asked to speak at each of them, and my request was just to get me there and back."

Roberts took two four-day trips with his wife last year: a conference in Orlando, paid for by the International Dairy Foods Association, and a panel meeting in Boca Raton, paid for by the Chicago Board of Trade. He spoke on agricultural issues at both.

Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt of Goddard took two privately funded trips to attend a conference in Baltimore and a congressional retreat in Scottsdale, Ariz.

The Repub Senate Committee just put out a web site claiming that Harold Ford likes to travel in high style and spent $50 a meal at the House Dining Room. They call it Fancy Ford. How about Fancy Sam Brownback? Is he a muthafukin' Pee I Em Pee too?

He could be a contender in '08