International Republican Institute - Sponsor of Congressional Travel

	No.	Cost
Trips Selected	48	$179,343
Approved by Republicans	41	$144,573
Approved by Democrats	7	$34,770

View Details / PDF	Traveler/ Dates	Approver	Destination/ Purpose	Cost
	Hanson, Marc B 05/28/08-05/31/08	Farr, Rep. Sam (-CA)	Bogota, Colombia Budget reform training sessions	$2,591.44
	Van Der Heide, Jennifer 02/20/08-02/24/08	Honda, Rep. Mike (-CA)	Bogota, Colombia Training with Colombia's Afro-Colombian Caucus	$2,903.28
	Smith, Bradley W 12/22/07-12/30/07	Dreier, Rep. David (-CA)	Nairobi, Kenya Kenyan election observation	$10,016.36
	Halloran, Lawrence J 10/26/07-11/02/07	Davis, Rep. Tom (-VA)	Islamabad, Pakistan - Lahore, Pakistan Mission to monitor Pakistani parliamentary and provincial elections	$5,840.21
	Van Der Heide, Jennifer 08/03/07-08/09/07	Honda, Rep. Mike (-CA)	Cali, Colombia - Quibdo, Colombia - ... more Visited various U.S. Agency for International Development-funded programs. Met with internally displ... more	$3,361.05
	Leman, Rachael 04/15/07-04/23/07	Dreier, Rep. David (-CA)	Abuja, Nigeria - Gombe, Nigeria In Abuja, attended briefings and trainings related to the EU; in Gombe, met with election officials ... more	$6,537.63
	Walker, Beau T 04/15/07-04/23/07	Boozman, Rep. John (-AR)	Abuja, Nigeria Election observer and met with U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, election commissioner and city officials	$6,670.86
	Ross, Thomas 04/15/07-04/22/07	Price, Rep. David (-NC)	Abuja, Nigeria - Lagos, Nigeria Election observing	$6,957.88
	Smith, Bradley W 04/04/07-04/11/07	Dreier, Rep. David (-CA)	Johannesburg, South Africa Attend International Republican Institute's Zimbabwe Communication Training	$4,450.00
	Croker, Elizabeth H 10/23/06-10/26/06	Chambliss, Sen. Saxby (-GA)	Tirana, Albania Lead a training session on district offices and constituent communications	$3,373.90
	Marshall, John P 10/17/06-10/24/06	Rush, Rep. Bobby (-IL)	Quibdo, Colombia - Bogota, Colombia Initiate an economic development seafood joint venture and to participate in the inagural Afro-Colom... more	$2,545.50
	Kolbe, Rep. Jim (-AZ) 10/08/06-10/13/06	Kolbe, Rep. Jim (-AZ)	Madrid, Spain - Brussels, Belgium Participating in IRI programs	$8,700.10
	Faleomavaega, Rep. Eni F H (-AS) 04/09/06-04/14/06	Faleomavaega, Rep. Eni F H (-AS)	Doha, Qatar Doha Forum: Democracy, Development and Free Trade; consistent with Department of State Mutual Educat... more	$14,288.00
	Hagel, Sen. Chuck (-NE) 03/21/06-03/29/06	Hagel, Sen. Chuck (-NE)	Kiev, Ukraine Observe elections	$4,193.00
	Estopinan, Arturo (Arthur) 03/02/06-03/07/06	Ros-Lehtinen, Rep. Ileana (-FL)	Managua, Nicaragua Observe Election in the Southern Region in the Autonomous Atlantic coast	$2,340.86
	Karoutsos, Demetrios 08/06/05-08/13/05	Smith, Sen. Gordon (-OR)	Monrovia, Liberia Conduct grassroots, communications, and policy development training for Liberian political parties	$3,730.65
	May, Michael C 05/13/05-05/15/05	Davis, Rep. Tom (-VA)	Tlaxcala, Mexico IRI asked me to attend a conference being held by Accion Juvenil, a youth organization affiliated wi... more	$1,183.79
	Kocher, Pamela G 05/09/05-05/15/05	Sununu, Sen. John (-NH)	Serbia Fact-finding trip	$3,657.20
	Barca, Franklin D 05/04/05-05/08/05	Gregg, Sen. Judd (-NH)	Macedonia Fact-finding; meet with government officials; present lecture at conference	$3,174.96
	Moore, Cheryl L 04/16/05-04/23/05	Feeney, Rep. Tom (-FL)	Singapore - Medan, Indonesia - ... more Trainer-on behalf of Rep. Feeney for IRI-Indonesia conference	$4,340.66
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