Top 10 Approvers by Member of Congress in 2007 by Number of Trips


Approving member Trips Cost
Michigan, 14th DemocratConyers, Rep. John 33 $34,492.89
Georgia, 5th DemocratLewis, Rep. John 18 $12,283.19
New Jersey, 10th DemocratPayne, Rep. Donald 16 $49,484.52
South Carolina, 6th DemocratClyburn, Rep. James 16 $25,719.98
Michigan, 13th DemocratKilpatrick, Rep. Carolyn 14 $25,638.40
Mississippi, 2nd DemocratThompson, Rep. Bennie 13 $18,768.68
Connecticut IndependentLieberman, Sen. Joseph 13 $30,278.63
Minnesota, 8th DemocratOberstar, Rep. James 10 $10,170.07
Ohio, 11th DemocratJones, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs 10 $22,725.42
California, 15th DemocratHonda, Rep. Mike 10 $37,739.84

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.— Economist John Kenneth Galbraith

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