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5/14/2010

Pelosi Cracks Down on House Travel Costs

Filed under: Politics — DRJ @ 5:47 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has issued new travel rules for House members:

“In guidelines sent to committee chairmen Thursday, the California Democrat said House members and staff should book coach or economy class when flying commercial. Business-class travel only will be authorized when flights exceed 14 hours. The letter and summary were released to reporters today.

(Lawmakers, of course, still can fly on government planes — such as those provided by the Defense Department for foreign trips. But Pelosi warned that the availability of DOD planes is “extremely limited” and arrangements should be made through an office that oversees congressional delegation travel, not by individual lawmakers.)”

No word on whether Pelosi’s in-flight services will be curtailed. If not, this falls under “Do as I say, not as I do.”

— DRJ

5 Responses to “Pelosi Cracks Down on House Travel Costs”

  1. Look for these hardship rules to be rescinded after the November election.

    daleyrocks (1d0d98)

  2. Of course the DOD planes are limited because Nancy I-Got-Mine-You-AIn’t-Getting-Yours Pelosi is using them.

    Charlie B (d207cf)

  3. Does she still order $20K + in booze for every flight?

    Scrapiron (996c34)

  4. Nancy and everyone in Congress should be made to travel by Amtrak. After taxpayer subsidies are eliminated.

    Maybe we’ll bet lucky and they’ll be stranded in their hometown and miss votes on such great pieces of legislation like health care reform.

    MU789 (8034a8)

  5. Re #3:

    Does she still order $20K + in booze for every flight?

    That’s not booze. That’s embalming fluid for her traveling sarcophagus. High altitude exposure to the sun is especially damaging to the undead.

    rtrski (971c3c)


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