…this time in travel. Boehner is the champion, far out-pacing Blunt. From The Hill:
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) has accepted four times more privately sponsored travel over the past five years than his closest rival in the race for majority leader, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), making Boehner the fifth most-traveled member of the House, according to a recent study.
Republican leaders in the House and Senate are moving closer to the formal introduction of a lobbying-reform package that could ban privately sponsored travel. Intense public and media scrutiny of lawmakers’ travel records helped propel the influence-peddling scandal now engulfing Capitol Hill, with lobbyist-paid trips proving central to the government’s case against Jack Abramoff.
The American Public Media-Medill School of Journalism study, the first version of which sparked widespread inquiry into congressional travel, ranks Boehner’s private trip value fifth in the House and seventh in Congress. Blunt is ranked 183rd out of out of 638 lawmakers included in the study, which surveyed former members. Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), who entered the race for majority leader Friday morning, is ranked 434th.






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