Top 10 Approvers by Member of Congress in 2006 by Cost


Approving member Trips Cost
New York, 6th DemocratMeeks, Rep. Gregory 19 $62,740.30
Retired  Nebraska RepublicanHagel, Sen. Chuck 16 $61,461.37
Georgia RepublicanChambliss, Sen. Saxby 35 $57,386.24
Washington, 7th DemocratMcDermott, Rep. Jim 18 $51,926.67
California, 7th DemocratMiller, Rep. George 17 $47,016.02
Retired  Arizona, 8th RepublicanKolbe, Rep. Jim 10 $46,929.32
New Jersey, 10th DemocratPayne, Rep. Donald 11 $46,748.82
Utah RepublicanBennett, Sen. Robert 16 $46,676.22
Texas, 6th RepublicanBarton, Rep. Joe 22 $43,133.38
Indiana RepublicanLugar, Sen. Richard 15 $43,019.66

History» Flights of Fancy

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) once accepted privately paid travel from a Israeli telecommunications company to visit convicted spy Jonathan Pollard in a North Carolina prison.

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