Most-Active Sponsors of Privately Financed Congressional Trips

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LegiStorm is constantly adding new information on the people, places and reports in our database. In the past week, LegiStorm added:

59 new people
32 new organizations
322 job history records for people in our database
106 education records for people in our database
158 contact addresses, emails and URLs (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)
9 new people through the revolving door
27 new policy reports
86 new trips to our privately funded travel database
162 new personal financial disclosures
48504 new tweets
8586 new press releases

Eight senators yet to file annual personal financial disclosures
by Chip Slawson on 05/24/2013
Freshmen chiefs largely Hill vets and campaign gurus, survey reveals
by Garrett Snedeker on 04/29/2013
Former Reps. Frank, West and LaTourette still late in providing final financial reports to House
by Garrett Snedeker on 03/25/2013
House GOP outspend Dems on congressional bonuses
by Daimon Eklund on 03/12/2013
Some departing members of Congress have failed to file required disclosures
by Daimon Eklund on 02/21/2013

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Revised StormFeed search to allow text-less searches
2013-04-25
Added new features to Advanced Staff Search
2013-04-18
New Storm Gauge launched to measure Twitter activity
2013-04-15
Sped up time to remove tweets marked as private
2013-04-09

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Fox News Involvement May Spark Republican Outrage Over Media Spying

by BuzzFeed on 05/20/2013

Few rules when foreign governments fund Congressional travel

by FOX 13 / WTVT-TV on 05/10/2013

Lawmakers' families bring home big perks

by Iowa Watchdog on 05/08/2013

Paying the Bills | Hill Navigator

by Roll Call on 05/07/2013

Sponsor	All Trips		Trips Taken by Republicans		Trips Taken by Democrats
Sponsor	Number	Cost	Number	Cost	Number	Cost
Congressional Institute	2182	$1814262	2171	$1802523	11	$11739
Aspen Institute	1330	$8458425	431	$2381122	892	$6059357
American Israel Education Foundation	760	$7330377	391	$4062260	367	$3250591
Heritage Foundation	674	$619245	664	$613750	10	$5495
George Mason University Mercatus Center	610	$344438	442	$238860	166	$104512
Consumer Electronics Association	467	$792831	294	$495945	172	$294902
Democratic Leadership Council	396	$546795	12	$13285	384	$533510
Humpty Dumpty Institute	410	$399742	125	$131821	284	$267168
Microsoft Corp.	384	$729412	170	$263223	214	$466189
Nuclear Energy Institute Inc.	378	$1202834	259	$841650	115	$357043
Chinese International Economic Cooperative Association	365	$1790480	218	$1048210	145	$734000
National Cable and Telecommunications Association	310	$531625	202	$340924	108	$190701
Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce	296	$1289286	165	$685158	129	$596988
German Marshall Fund of the United States	244	$1550346	123	$854076	118	$687724
New York Stock Exchange	243	$225073	109	$96673	134	$128400
U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress	226	$1014046	122	$574003	102	$432010
U.S. Telecom Association	219	$372152	170	$288070	49	$84082
AT&T Inc.	219	$378627	143	$204133	76	$174494
Alliance for Health Reform	211	$245833	81	$70730	129	$175103
Congressional Economic Leadership Institute	209	$739453	118	$366867	91	$372586
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