Discussion: House Committee Nixes Disclosure Of All-Expense-Paid Trips For Congress

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Unacceptable!

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Wow, the Repubs CAN get something done, if they really want to.

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And the Koch boys just bought 2 more jets. Who says the Baggernuts can’t boost the economy?

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John Boehner is a disgrace not worthy of holding Nancy Pelosi’s handbag…

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Nothing but sleaze.

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Looks like Republicans and Democrats have reached bipartisanship on this one. Not a peep by either side:

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Bribery should be legalized. So should insider trading and price fixing. These are simply conversations and exchange of favors among people.

The conservative extremists in the Supreme Court think that money is free speech and corporations are people.

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Outrageous corruption, our government is no longer a government.
It is an organized crime syndicate.

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You want disclosure? Sure, we’re just going off on a little junket to BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI!!!

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So I guess we’ll never find out what Boehner was doing in Bellevue, Washington on Saturday morning.

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The re-birth of the Good 'Ol Boys Club.

Need more proof that Congress is broken?

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Meanwhile, if they had any real integrity, which they don’t in the slightest, the pukes should have nixed those junkets, not the disclosure of junkets. WOW…simply wow.

What a bunch of marauding thieves out to con the public again. Corrupt bastards, that’s all they are, trying to hide their dishonorable deeds.

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Does that mean Charlie Rangle is in the clear?

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Because they trust themselves so much and that’s what really counts. When they waste money, they do it “for us” so that we don’t have to.

Besides, the time that they waste is the real killer.

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Just in time for the August recess.

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Wow, this could be a really big issue in the whopping 25 swing districts that are left in the entire country.

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The Boehner whine - the American People DEMAND transparency - except if I want to hide all our free travel paid for by lobbyists and heavy hitters and then it is none of their freaking business.

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I’ve got to admit, I am disappointed that there was a bipartisan agreement to reduce transparency and but the House more in the pockets of the wealthy. Shame on them all.

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