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How Congress Rolls: House Spends $1.4 Million Per Month on Travel

(July 21) -- It's a truth of political life (not to mention, yes, an unforgivable bastardization of a classic TV catchphrase): Have seat in Congress, will travel. As if your job depends on it. Because it very well might. Full Report How Congress Spent Your $1 Billion Food Tab: $604K on Bottled Water Interns and Pages:...

Congress' Expense Report: $4.4 Million for House Interns and Pages

(July 21) -- Nice work, if you can get it. But chances are you can't, unless you happen to still be in school. 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...

Congress' Old-Media Habit: $1.2 Million a Month on News and Research

(July 21) -- One group of people not contributing to the erosion of paid newspaper subscriptions: our duly elected representatives and their staffs. The hundreds of line items for old-media purchases are among the many clues to Congress' news habits that AOL News spotted in its close reading of the House's last three...

Congress' Food Tab: $604,000 for Bottled Water, $152 at Quiznos

(July 21) -- Crave ribs? Bagels and coffee or doughnuts? Seafood, subs or Chinese? So does Congress! House members spent part of their Members Representational Allowances on these items -- and more -- during the nine-month period between late 2009 and early 2010 covered by the Sunlight Foundation's House Expenditure...

Congress Completes Health Care Overhaul

(March 25) -- The U.S. House of Representatives voted 220 to 207 on Thursday night to give final approval to the reconciliation portion of the health care reform bill, sending the measure to President Obama for his signature.