Sensenbrenner racks up over $168,000 in travel expenses

[sybylla]

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_20798470.shtml
Sensenbrenner’s sponsored travel tops list
Representative racks up $168,000 in expenses; Green trips just over $15,000

By Brian Tumulty
Press-Gazette Washington bureau

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner racked up $168,000 in travel expenses covered by private groups since 2000, more than any other member of Congress, according to a report released Tuesday.

The nonpartisan analysis by Political Money Line showed Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls, took 19 privately financed trips to locales ranging from Taiwan to Guatemala and Germany between January 2000 and earlier this year.

Five members of Congress took 51 or more trips, but none ran up as large a tab as Sensenbrenner, who allowed private groups to also pay the expenses of his wife, Cheryl, on eight of them and his son, F. James Sensenbrenner, on the trip to Guatemala.

Sensenbrenner’s office did not immediately return a phone call or an e-mail seeking comment.
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Do we have a Demopedia file started for Sensenbrenner? I think this would be good info to have for the next election cycle.

[gizmo1979]

1. What was really sad

was he was ranked 75th in total NO. of trips taken.So he doesn't travel often,just very well!

[RevCheesehead]

2. How old is this guy? He's been around forever.

Has he always "lived large?" (think here "Bob" from the enzyte commercials), or is this just cockiness gone wild?

[ralps]

3. His Wisconsin House is in the village of Chenequa, one of the richer

villages in Wisconsin. :puke: :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: