Congress' Travel Hypocrisy?

This is just odd. In the middle of a recession, after lambasting executives for flying on expensive corporate jets after receiving millions in taxpayer bailout funds, the House has approved $550 million to buy eight new jets for use by members of Congress and their staff, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Lawmakers in the House last week added funds to buy those planes, and plus funds to buy an additional two 737s and two Gulfstream V planes. The purchases must still be approved by the...

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Travis Schmeltzer

August 8, 2009 12:45 am

Of course Congress is going to spend $550 million dollars on luxury jets for their own use when everybody else is struggling to make ends meet, it makes complete sense to me. They really should be traveling domestically in the clunkers that were eventually destroyed in the "Cash for Clunkers" program.