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Aspen Institute

Information

Website: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/

Organization's Own Description:

The Aspen Institute mission is twofold: to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues.  read more

Address:

Main Office
2300 N St. NW
Suite 700
Washington, District of Columbia 20037
Phone: (202) 736-5800
Fax: (202) 467-0790
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Trips

This organization has paid for one or more congressional trips. A summary of that travel follows:

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Caught Our Eye

  • Rep. Bucshon is making the most of his last year in office

    Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 1, 2024
    Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) accepted $63,000 in privately funded travel in 2023 ― the seventh highest of any member of Congress that year. Since announcing in early January that he will not seek reelection, Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.) has already beaten that. read more

  • Private congressional travel reaches post-pandemic rebound

    Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 29, 2024
    Interest-group spending on private congressional travel reached its highest point since before the pandemic. read more

  • Interest groups have already spent more on 2022's private travel than in any election year since 2004

    Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Nov. 21, 2022
    It's not even Thanksgiving, and interest groups have already spent more on private congressional travel than in any election year since 2004. read more

  • Ex-Rep. Jim Greenwood registers as first-time lobbyist

    Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 29, 2021
    A former congressman has finally passed through the revolving door after 16 years in the private sector. read more

  • Interest groups continue to spend big on congressional travel

    Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 16, 2018
    Congressional members and staff sure wanted to escape Washington last year — and private travel sponsors spent the most money since 2005 helping them do just that. read more

  • Private groups spending big on congressional Democrats

    Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 31, 2017
    Democrats in Congress sure seem to be jumping at the chance to get as far away as possible from Washington these days. Private sponsors have spent 55 percent more on trips for congressional Democrats than Republicans so far this year, largely due to one particular think tank's spending. read more

  • Aspen Institute drops big bucks on Rep. Sewell

    Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 26, 2017
    The Aspen Instutite sent Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) on one of Congress's most expensive sponsored trips of all time. The two-night excursion to Japan cost the think tank more than $31,000. read more

  • Paulsen adult daughter travels in style to Africa

    Posted by J. Todd Foster on March 28, 2016
    A Minnesota congressman's trip to Africa is the most expensive privately financed trip of the year so far because he also had the nonprofit sponsor pick up the tab for his adult daughter. read more

  • Cotton's Israel trip proves costly - literally

    Posted by Steve Shapiro on Oct. 16, 2015
    A visit to Israel by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and his wife last month was the third most expensive privately financed trip a member has taken in the last 15 years. read more

  • Democrats take top spots this year for most expensive privately sponsored travel

    Posted by Jenna Ebersole on July 8, 2015
    Democratic members of Congress hold eight of the top 10 slots for dollars spent on privately sponsored travel so far this year. read more

  • Nebraska Republican will marry former Hill staffer

    Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Nov. 21, 2014
    Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) is counting down to more than just Thanksgiving dinner. He is one week away from tying the knot with a senior adviser at the Aspen Institute who once worked briefly in Congress. read more

  • Staffers and members crisscross globe during August recess

    Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Sept. 22, 2014
    Trips by members of Congress and their staffs during the August recess cost $766,000, a dramatic increase from two years ago.Although the figure is much lower than last August's $2 million figure, it represents a nearly 50 percent increase in spending over the more comparable election-year August of 2012, when $515,000 was spent. Typically, election year travel is reduced, as members focus their attention on reelection and away from potentially politically unpopular junkets. The latest numbers support an overall increase in travel in recent years. read more

  • In 2013, Congress took more trips from private interests than any year since 2007 reforms

    Posted by Katie Barrows on Feb. 3, 2014
    Lawmakers and their staff broke a record for taking the most privately funded trips since 2007, when reforms came into effect after a major lobbying scandal. read more

  • Posted by Katie Barrows on Sept. 23, 2013
    U.S. lawmakers traveled this August in record numbers for the post-Abramoff era, with travelers jetting to such far-flung locales as China, Tanzania and Israel. read more

  • Posted by LegiStorm on Sept. 3, 2013
    While Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) last week reported an August trip to Ethiopia courtesy of the Aspen Institute, her co-traveler and little sister seemed focused more on the free first-class flight she received for an Italian vacation. read more

  • Posted by Garrett Snedeker on May 15, 2013
    When you travel the world as often as Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) does, it is easy to neglect filing paperwork on-time for each trip. But at least Saddam Hussein didn't pay for it. read more

  • Posted by Matt Von Lunen on April 23, 2013
    Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) recently returned from his first privately funded trip, a six-day jaunt to Istanbul, Turkey. read more

  • Privately funded congressional trips hit new highs in 2011

    Posted by LegiStorm on Jan. 26, 2012
    Private interests spent a record amount to send members of Congress and their staff on trips on 2011, and the individual trips were longer and costlier than ever before.There were 1,600 privately funded congressional trips in 2011, worth a total of more than $5.8 million, the largest amount since ethics reforms were enacted in 2007 in the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal. The total amount is the highest since 2005, when a record 4,917 trips were taken totaling $9.9 million. The record for money spent came in 2004, when 4,780 trips cost nearly $10.4 million. read more

  • Posted by LegiStorm on Nov. 28, 2011
    Welby Leaman has been a trade counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee for less than a year but he has given himself a nice promotion in his latest trip disclosure. Rather than filing the form intended for employees, he filed the form intended for members, signing his own name as the approving member of Congress rather than his boss, Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.). read more

  • Privately-sponsored congressional travel hits new low

    Posted by LegiStorm on March 1, 2011
    Lawmakers and their staff took fewer privately-financed trips in 2010 than any other year since LegiStorm started tracking the data, but the average cost of those trips rose to its highest point. read more

  • Trip tally 2009: Israel and beyond

    Posted by LegiStorm on Feb. 24, 2010
    Despite last year's bitter partisan spats, it seems there was at least one area where Republicans and Democrats saw eye-to-eye -- free trips to Israel. read more

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