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Pingree first trip features plenty of food, no meals

Posted by Steve Shapiro on Nov. 6, 2015

Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) has been office for nearly seven years and finally took her first privately sponsored trip to a New York Times food conference. She might have come away a tad hungry.

The Times sponsored Pingree's trip, which cost a little under $1,000, but her disclosure of the trip included no meal expenses. Travel expenses amounted to around $750 and the lodging costs were a little over $200.

The conference, hosted in Tarrytown, N.Y., was called "Food for Tomorrow" and featured discussions on food policy, health and food trends. Pingree sits on the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee and spoke at the conference on "farm and food issues," according to her filing. The congresswoman grew up farming in Maine and lists local food and farms as a key issue on her congressional website.