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Hastert Squanders $20,000 Taxpayer Dollars On Travel
June 24, 2008 |
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The AP has found out that during former House speaker Dennis Hastert’s last 11 months in office, he “managed to visit seven nations and run up a tab of just over $20,000 in taxpayer-funded overseas trips.†Hastert — who held no leadership position in Congress during this time — traveled to the UK, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, China,
Japan, and Colombia. In contrast, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) took taxpayer funded trips to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan; he “received $1,195 in per diem, but spent $827.16 and returned the rest to the U.S. treasury.â€
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