Full Report
How Congress Spent Your $1 Billion
Food Tab: $604K on Bottled Water
Interns and Pages: $4.4 Million
News and Research: $1.2 Million
Travel: $1.4 Million a Month
Congress Is a PC: Just $22K on Apple
About This Series
How Congress Spent Your $1 Billion
Food Tab: $604K on Bottled Water
Interns and Pages: $4.4 Million
News and Research: $1.2 Million
Travel: $1.4 Million a Month
Congress Is a PC: Just $22K on Apple
About This Series
The work in question is a paid House internship or page position (annual stipend: $21,134), and it's among the reams of HR-related items in the searchable database that the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation has created from the House's Statement of Disbursements. Collecting all the invoices generated by Congress every three months, it was made available in digital form for the first time in December. Following the most recent update in June, the House's expenditures for the last six months of 2009 and the first three months of 2010 are now online.
Read on for more of what we dug up from the House's personnel bill, which is part of a larger AOL News series on what Congress spends on itself.
Ernie Smith is the editor of ShortFormBlog, a news site equally obsessed with numbers and bad jokes.
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