Private Travel Crackdown
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Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed cracking down on privately funded travel for her House colleagues. But Opinion Journal writes that getting a ban past soon-to-be Ethics Committee Chairwoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones will not be easy — because she is the top traveler in the house.
The Ohio Democrat has taken 74 trips since 2000 — an average of almost one a month — including a 2005 Las Vegas conference paid for by the United Steelworkers — and a speech in Barbados earlier this year courtesy of the National Bar Association.
Jones makes no apologies for the trips — saying she receives the invitations because she is "the only African-American woman and only Democratic woman on the Ways and Means Committee."
Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed cracking down on privately funded travel for her House colleagues. But Opinion Journal writes that getting a ban past soon-to-be Ethics Committee Chairwoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones will not be easy — because she is the top traveler in the house.
The Ohio Democrat has taken 74 trips since 2000 — an average of almost one a month — including a 2005 Las Vegas conference paid for by the United Steelworkers — and a speech in Barbados earlier this year courtesy of the National Bar Association.
Jones makes no apologies for the trips — saying she receives the invitations because she is "the only African-American woman and only Democratic woman on the Ways and Means Committee."
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