Sentences with phrase «funded junkets»

Visitors to the site can learn about the Congressional perks such as automatic pay hikes, gold - plated pensions, privately funded junkets and others; listen to the radio hour online or download the transcript; learn about the rise of lobbying in Washington; or read about he battle over the future of the Internet.

Special interest - funded junkets weren't the only gift loophole highlighted by Common Cause.

CalNewsroom.com first reported that Assemblyman Jeff Gorell, before announcing his campaign for Congress, attended a special interest - funded junket to Maui.

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Whether or not they paid for this junket, if they are thinking of footing the bill for others in the future, even despots with unlimited slush funds might ask whether the NCC today has any influence worth buying.

Yes, the partisan and gridlocked NYS Board of Elections ruled that spending campaign cash on junkets is permissible as long as the campaign funds only pay a portion (50 %, 75 %, 99 %?)

I wonder whether any of that money will help fund travel - writer junkets to the region.

The practice has always raised ethical concerns, but a recent junket to the Gulf Coast is drawing more critical attention than usual because the funding originated with BP.

Nevertheless, he's not sure this trip raises any new questions about junkets and ethics just because it was funded by BP.

Much of the amplifying feedback created in the models also creates the hot - spot, so without any evidence that the hot - spot is occurring, there goes the disaster (and the urgent need for funding and junkets).

Their money funds Don Blankenship's helicopters, mansion and corrupt junkets to Spain with WV Supreme Court Justices.

sawed in half the global warming illusion that the formerly mainstream media had sold as reality, all of a sudden there's massive upheaval: dogs and cats living together; news networks hosting climate debates; CBS exposing taxpayer - funded boondoggle junkets to Copenhagen; and politicians (other than Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe) boldly denouncing fraudulent research about the «benefits» of «solutions» to global warming.

But the raise may come with an added cost of its own: a ban on judicial junkets (ABC.com, 2/4/08), i.e., those all - expense paid trips and lavish gifts funded by special interest groups, and disguised as seemingly benign «fact - finding missions» or educational seminars.