Another DeLay trip is coming under scrutiny by the press. The Washington Post reports that in 1997 DeLay and other individuals took a six-day trip to Moscow that was underwritten “by business interests lobbying in support of the Russian government.”

DeLay’s office reported the trip was sponsored by a Washington-based nonprofit. However, those involved in planning the trip say a “mysterious” company registered in the Bahamas that also paid for a $440,000 lobbying campaign covered expenses.

DeLay spokesman Dan Allen countered, “The trip was initiated by the National Center, and they were the ones who organized it, planned it and paid for it.”