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Congressional Travel Junkets Up 50% | Support Your Local Gunfighter [#]
One Response to “Congressional Travel Junkets Up 50%”. John D Says: July 3rd, 2009 at 4:20 pm. Why would anyone vote to keep these people (Democrats and Republicans) back into office next year? Because nobody good wants the job. ...
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Junkets is as junkets does. By TigerHawk at 7/02/2009 08:34:00 PM. Congressional junketeering has surged by 50% since the voters bestowed control of the Congress on the Donks. Blog reax here. Righty bloggers seem to assume this is just ...
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Congressional travel junkets up 50% since Democrats took power ... [#]
Congressional travel junkets up 50% since Democrats took power. Posted by iusbvision on July 3, 2009. They have large majorities on both houses of Congress, so why not take a bunch of trips to Paris, New Zealand and Italy and have YOU ...
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Junkets and slippers | Iloilo Views [#]
I am glad that the Senate is investigating the unusual volume of foreign trips of Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) Chairman Camilo Sabio. It.
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Conservative Blog: Taxpayer Funded Junkets for Congress Up 50 ... [#]
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Political Junkets increasing [#]
Members of congress, both Democrats and Republicans are taking more and more trips abroad and spending more and more money on these trips for themselves, their staffs and their families. These trips are ostensibly fact finding trips but ...
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Ducky Paredes › On Presidential Junkets [#]
On Presidential Junkets. “Perhaps, the better way would be to simply look at our national budget, set aside a sum for presidential trips – domestic and foreign – and have the President live within that budget.” by Ducky Paredes ...
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Dem control of Congress spikes junket travel 50% [#]
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J&J Is Biggest Spender on Military Prescribing Junkets | BNET ... [#]
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Possible Criminal Investigation Into GOP Gov. Sanford's Tax-Paid ... [#]
Possible Criminal Investigation Into GOP Gov. Sanford's Tax-Paid Love Junkets. Posted by Lee Ward Published: Jun 27, 09 10:56 AM. Read all about it: The details of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's secretive trips to visit his lover in ...
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Health Beat: First, They Came Bearing Trinkets for Doctors--Now ... [#]
Over on the always-excellent Schwitzer Health News Blog, the University of Minnesota's Gary Schwitzer spotlights a notice that appeared in the Society of Professional Journalist's (SPJ) e-newsletter: “Interested in covering the health ...
Health Beat (Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:31:41 GMT) |
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Best Week Ever | VH1 Official Site [#]
Im starting to understand why so many celebrities turn to drugs and alcohol. Press junkets. Its a necessary evil in order to promote your film, but to sit with Mr. or Mrs. Fakeyville who either kno.
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My Four Eyed Fantasy: Press Junkets and Why They Are So Darn ... [#]
Press Junkets and Why They Are So Darn Challenging. Sandra Bullock & Ryan Reynolds / All Images © Emily Shur 2009. You set up for three hours in a hotel room. You shoot for five minutes. You hope for the best. ...
My Four Eyed Fantasy (Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:25:00 GMT) |
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Squall Lines » Blog Archive » It's official — no more junkets for ... [#]
It's official — no more junkets for politicians' spouses. Posted June 17th, 2009 at 4:55 PM by John Hood. The Wilmington City Council voted last night to place limits on the city travel budget in the aftermath of the March fiasco: ...
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John Wilson MSP » WILSON CALLS FOR CURBS ON TEAM BUILDING JUNKETS [#]
WILSON CALLS FOR CURBS ON TEAM BUILDING JUNKETS. Following a survey of Scotland's Public bodies showing that Police forces, Quangos and Councils, have been sending staff on “away days” and team building sessions in an effort to improve ...
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PAXALLES: I-bama Obama LA, Vegas Party Junkets Cost Taxpayers - Is ... [#]
President Obama touts early progress from the Los Angeles Times reports on President Obama's gaudy fundraising tour-de-force in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.He offered himself a great deal of congratulations for the progress (on the ...
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FIRST-PERSON: How movie press junkets help you - Baptist Messenger ... [#]
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Business trips or junkets? [#]
bg-header. Lots of times when Navy officials travel, they don’t actually pay for the trips. Instead, it’s business, associations and foreign governments that pick up the tab. Check out this site here that shows all the trips taken by ...
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Gawker - Payola Six: On the Matter of Junkets - New York Daily News [#]
Yesterday we pointed out a Daily News article about Page Six grizzly bear Chris Wilson, who last June went on a lavish junket in Napa, courtesy of Jaguar. While those still unfamiliar with the inner-workings of a gossip column may shake ...
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WHEN GOOD JUNKETS GO BAD: VEGAS STYLE - Hollywood Celebrity and ... [#]
You may remember last year's IRON MAN junket story involving a newbie reporter making star ROBERT DOWNEY JR. very uncomfortable by trying to be a little more clever than capable. Well, yesterday at CAESAR'S PALACE in Las Vegas, ...
Hollywood Outbreak (Mon, 18 May 2009 18:45:25 GMT) |
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UNO calls for accounting of GMA, allies junkets abroad [#]
UNO spokesperson Ernesto Maceda said on Wednesday the government has been blatantly spending the people’s money to fund their foreign junkets thinly veiled as official travel. Maceda said that President Macapagal-Arroyo, who left with a ...
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Sanford Traveled to Argentina on Taxpayer Money [#]
Uh oh. Looks like we have a whole new definition of “stimulus funds.” Gov. Mark Sanford admitted his Argentinian affair today, and within an hour, Brian Stroup noted that Sanford has been to Argentina on the taxpayers’ dime. ...
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Pentagon Junkets and Stimulus Pet Projects [#]
by David Epstein, ProPublica -. Here are our editors' picks from today's roundup of investigative stories around the Web. Was there a story we missed? Please keep sending us your picks or include them in the comments section below. ...
ProPublica: Articles and Investigations (Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:09:39 GMT) |
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Unity junkets aim to woo Taiwanese - The Standard [#]
Unity junkets aim to woo Taiwanese - The Standard.
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Say It Ain't So, Sarah | Mother Jones [#]
There's the part about resigning being the only way she can stop herself from going overseas on lavish taxpayer financed junkets. I guess we all have our favorite parts, but my sister's reaction pretty much summed it up: WTF? ...
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Stephen Spillane's My Opinion: Paddy's Day Junkets [#]
So RTÉ have the list of visits junkets for St. Patricks Day. Because of cut backs, some Ministers have to visit two or even three places. Don't you feel so sorry for them. This of course does not include Local Councillors heading off ...
Stephen Spillane's My Opinion (Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:18:00 GMT) |
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Taxpayer Funded Junkets for Congress Up 50%… | Blog.Wood [#]
Scott Miller Is this is the “change” all you unthinking Obamabots out there voted for… from the Wall Street Journal: ... and their spouses on a four-day trip to France for the biennial Paris Air Show.
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World Cup ticket fever and media junkets « Beyond The Touchline [#]
Not surprisingly, the folks in charge of the junket — oh, it sounds so dirty! — aren't happy at all: “Soccer, in the US, receives more coverage in the blogosphere than it does in mainstream media. That is to be expected, ...
Beyond The Touchline (Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:10:53 GMT) |
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Hardingco Blog » Blog Archive » Rainmaker Problem #14: Are Lead ... [#]
Over the past twenty years a handful of companies have prospered by running what I call lead junkets. A class of corporate manager; human resources managers, facilities managers, financial managers or some other group; are invited on an ...
Hardingco Blog (Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:15:25 GMT) |
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AIG Effect Hits Pentagon - 22000 Junkets worth $26m [#]
The AIG effect brings to a screeching halt the junkets enjoyed by one more sector - The Pentagon. A new report compiled by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) shows that from 1998-2007, DOD personnel took 22000 trips worth at least ...
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Congressional travel junkets up 50% since… | Blog.Wood [#]
They have large majorities on both houses of Congress, so why not take a bunch of trips to Paris, New Zealand and Italy and have YOU pay for them! ... and their spouses on a four-day trip to France for the biennial Paris Air Show.
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January - February Estimate US$1 billion of junkets junked by US ... [#]
Shamed by images of wealthy corporateers cavorting at the expense of ordinary people, US companies canceled an estimated US$1 billion worth of conferences in the first two months of this year and trimmed back on others.
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TV and Teaching: junkets screen, cameras and Low-SES schools [#]
I’m sitting here watching a photography manifest on the Create network. as a determine A bamboozle malodorous named Art Wolfe travels to the a abstracted clan in West Africa and takes snapshots of a sacerdotal excursion the easy ...
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``The junkets got out of hand. '' - Mayor [#]
AN ERA is ending in The Hills Shire after more than $100000 in ratepayer dollars was wasted on controversial sister-city junkets abroad by successive mayors and council staff.
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Has Tuffy Been Going on Junkets Paid for By Jennings Business Buddies? [#]
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Baulkham Hills. Plug pulled on 'junkets' [#]
The Hills Shire Council has pulled the plug on its Sister Cities program, not because such programs are not worthwhile but for the “junkets that got out of hand”, according to Mayor, Larry Bollitho. The Northern News reported that more ...
Parra Mattas (Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:26:00 GMT) |
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Should Wine Bloggers Accept Press Junkets? | 1 Wine Dude [#]
Upcoming wine events, including 1WineDude's first press junket.
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Virtual Walks of Europe - A Unique Travel Experience In June of 1999, Kathi and I took a Globus spell of Italy - their “Italian Mosaic.” Before leaving also in behalf of the operate, I borrowed a Steadicam Jr. from a fairness New ...
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J&J Is Biggest Spender in on Military Prescribing Junkets | BNET … [#]
Original post by Jim Edwards.
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Opposition slams Arroyo foreign ‘junkets’ [#]
Millions of pesos in public funds will go down the drain as Malacañang and its allies continue to use their office as a “travel agency,” according to the United Opposition.
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George Soros : US Congressional Junkets: Who's Number 1 ... [#]
Russia Blog US Congressional Junkets: Who's Number 1, Russia or Georgia? Russia Blog ... and also worked with the George Soros -funded Open Society Policy Center in Washington DC Mr. Scheunemann was back in the news this week, ...
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Junkets up 50% Since Dems Took Over - OBAMAers Dot Com [#]
Junkets up 50% Since Dems Took Over. Jul.02, 2009 in barack obama. Since the Democrats took over they've been spending your taxpayer dollars on travel to oftentimes exotic destinations for family and freinds. ...
OBAMAers Dot Com (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:11:38 GMT) |
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Council junkets [#]
Okay, that's an unfair headline, but in the current climate every bit of public expenditure is going to be under the spotlight. That's why the Channel 4 report into Council spending on foreign travel is very relevant. ...
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Opposition slams Arroyo foreign ‘junkets’ [#]
Millions of pesos in public funds will go down the drain as Malacañang and its allies continue to use their office as a "travel agency," according to the United Opposition Go to Source.
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