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All but three members of Congress have filed their 2011 personal financial disclosures.

Reps. Yvette Clark (D-N.Y.), Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.)  are the only lawmakers who do not have filings available through the House or Senate public records offices. 

All 100 Senators have filed, with 10 of them doing so on or near the final extension deadline of Aug. 15.

Nearly 20 percent of all members of the House of Representatives will travel to Israel this month courtesy of the American Israel Eduction Foundation (AIEF), according to the Washington Post.

AIEF is the non-profit arm of the pro-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. Although House ethics rules forbid most congressional travel paid for by lobbyists, AIPAC gets around the ban by having AIEF pay for the trips, as LegiStorm highlighted after AIEF sent a large congressional contingent to Israel in 2009.

The group has been sponsoring such trips for large groups of members in non-election years for about two decades, the Post said. This year's group of 81 House members seems to be the largest-ever contingent. There are two separate groups traveling to Israel, as the Democratic and Republican members tour the country separately. A group of 26 Democrats is currenly in Israel, and 55 Republicans will follow later this month. About 47 of the Republican members are freshman, the Post said.