Congressional Travel for Dates 08/09/2009 to 08/14/2009

Congressional travel between 08/09/2009 and 08/14/2009

	No.	Cost
Trips Selected	142	$1,046,557
Approved by Republicans	62	$488,320
Approved by Democrats	81	$569,636

View Details / PDF	Traveler/ Dates	Sponsor	Approver	Destination/ Purpose	Cost
	Alsup, Christopher William (Chris) 08/07/09-08/15/09	Institute of Interfaith Dialog for World Peace	Carter, Rep. John (-TX)	Istanbul, Turkey - Ankara, Turkey Attended conferences on political, cultural, economic and nationals security topics of mutual intere... more	$2,680.00
	Graves, Scott Chester 08/07/09-08/15/09	Institute of Interfaith Dialog for World Peace	Conaway, Rep. Mike (-TX)	Istanbul, Turkey - Ankara, Turkey Met with Turkish officials, business leaders, educators, journalists, and U.S. government officials	$2,680.00
	Johnson, Brigitta A. 08/07/09-08/15/09	Institute of Interfaith Dialog for World Peace	Roskam, Rep. Peter (-IL)	Istanbul, Turkey Attended meetings and tours to learn about Turkish progress in political, societal, civil and religi... more	$2,680.00
	Ray, Lindsey 08/07/09-08/15/09	Institute of Interfaith Dialog for World Peace	Johnson, Rep. Sam (-TX)	Istanbul, Turkey Met with Turkish officials, business leaders, and representatives from the media, education and heal... more	$2,670.00
	Samp, Anthony Pasquale (Tony) 08/07/09-08/15/09	Institute of Interfaith Dialog for World Peace	Heinrich, Rep. Martin (-NM)	Istanbul, Turkey - Ankara, Turkey To learn about Turkish political, economic and social issues, to gain an understanding of topics inc... more	$2,680.00
	Stalnaker, Ryan D. 08/07/09-08/15/09	Institute of Interfaith Dialog for World Peace	Carter, Rep. John (-TX)	Istanbul, Turkey - Ankara, Turkey Attended meetings to discuss political, economic, cultural and national security related topics of m... more	$2,680.00
	Calvo, Michael Javier 08/04/09-08/09/09	Fu Jen Catholic University (Taiwan)	Gingrey, Rep. Phil (-GA)	Taipei, Taiwan Fact-finding and educational visit	$6,225.64
	Watts, Robert Allen (Bob) 08/04/09-08/09/09	Fu Jen Catholic University (Taiwan)	Gingrey, Rep. Phil (-GA)	Taipei, Taiwan Fact-finding educational visit	$6,225.64
	Bauman, Bradley M. (Brad) 08/03/09-08/10/09	Defense Forum Foundation	Ryan, Rep. Tim (-OH)	Algiers, Algeria - Tindouf, Algeria Participated in a fact-finding mission to Algerian refugee camps	$1,583.13
	Griffen, Martyn 08/03/09-08/09/09	Defense Forum Foundation	Snyder, Rep. Vic (-AR)	Algiers, Algeria - Tindouf, Algeria Participated in a fact-finding mission to Algerian refugee camps	$2,383.13
	Gunderson, Abigail (Abby) 08/03/09-08/09/09	Defense Forum Foundation	Lamborn, Rep. Doug (-CO)	Algiers, Algeria - Tindouf, Algeria Meetings with leaders and government officials in the Sahrawi refugee camps	$2,383.13
	Lahr, Amanda Schmidgall 08/03/09-08/09/09	Defense Forum Foundation	Pitts, Rep. Joe (-PA)	Algiers, Algeria - Tindouf, Algeria Meetings with government officials in the Sahrawi refugees camps	$2,383.13
	Pearson, Dexter L. 08/03/09-08/09/09	Defense Forum Foundation	Snyder, Rep. Vic (-AR)	Algiers, Algeria - Tindouf, Algeria Meeting with Sahrawi refugee camp leaders and operations staff, tours of hospitals	$2,383.13
	Weil, David 08/03/09-08/09/09	Defense Forum Foundation	Inglis, Rep. Bob (-SC)	Tindouf, Algeria Attended meetings with Sahrawi refugees and Algerian officials	$2,383.13
	Thompson, Rep. G.T. (-PA) 08/02/09-08/09/09	American Israel Education Foundation	Thompson, Rep. G.T. (-PA)	Tel Aviv, Israel Attended meetings and tours to learn more about the U.S.-Israel relationship	$16,629.92
	Schock, Rep. Aaron (-IL) 08/01/09-08/11/09	American Israel Education Foundation	Schock, Rep. Aaron (-IL)	Tel Aviv, Israel Attended meetings and tours to learn more about the U.S.-Israel relationship	$9,631.61
	Moore, Jonathan T. (Jon) 08/01/09-08/10/09	RESULTS Educational Fund	Rothman, Rep. Steve (-NJ)	Lusaka, Zambia - Maseru, Lesotho Attended meetings with U.S. and in-country government representatives as well as leading NGOs provid... more	$4,097.95
	Rathod, Vrunda P. 08/01/09-08/10/09	RESULTS Educational Fund	Watson, Rep. Diane (-CA)	Lusaka, Zambia - Maseru, Lesotho Meetings were held with U.S. and in-country government officials and leading non-governmental organi... more	$3,962.87
	Smith, Kristin McKenzie 08/01/09-08/10/09	RESULTS Educational Fund	Rehberg, Rep. Denny (-MT)	Lusaka, Zambia - Maseru, Lesotho Meetings with government and non-governmental organization officials to discuss microfinance, educat... more	$3,647.61
	Austria, Rep. Steve (-OH) 08/01/09-08/09/09	American Israel Education Foundation	Austria, Rep. Steve (-OH)	Tel Aviv, Israel Attended meetings and tours to learn more about the U.S.-Israel relationship	$7,325.84
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