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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 Is a PC: Expense Review Shows Just $22,000 in Apple Purchases

(July 21 -- Legislating: There's an app for that. Commissioned by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., it's called GovWatch, and it aggregates the social media feeds of the GOP members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, with a goal of "giving the American taxpayer a mobile window on Washington...

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...