This woman doesn’t need security or protection, especially at a cost of well over 4 million a year for travel. She is so vicious it’s the public that need to be protected from her.

They are named. Go read the FOIA documents.

You are as queer as a 9 dollar bill waiting on three 3 dollar bills for change, “not good enough for the GOP”.

libs like the mile high club

The Speaker of the House was authorized by George Bush after 9/11 to get free rides from the Air Force. Check Snopes’ entry for her jet. Hastert used it roughly every weekend. Pelosi’s first 23 months she used it for 20 trips.

You wanna go down and give me a smack on my hard what?

Here is a better idea:

This is the 21st century. We should decentralize much of the government and make them stay in their home states 80% of the time. The government can pay for a dedicated T1 line and Video Conferencing equipment at their local offices.

This also reduces the power of Lobbyists who now have to fly all over the country or have offices in multiple states, and from a security standpoint it creates far flung targets instead of one big one. You could then direct more security specifically to the Speaker.

While like you I don’t like her, I’m looking at the position she holds (hopefully for not much longer). As Speaker she’s next in line after the VP, then the President pro tempore. In the past they didn’t get shuttled but everyone else in line does. Though as I implied ( I should have been more clear), if the President pro tempore doesn’t get it, the Speaker shouldn’t. And she certainly shouldn’t abuse the perk.

They say alcohol kills germs. I’m doing this for my health! Heh.

YOU LIE! “‘in-flight services’ – including food and liquor” doesn’t equal “In-Flight Food And Booze”

Even if it did, it was probably spent with stimulating the economy in mind.

Nancy Pelosi is a moron and the people of California that voted for this baffoon should be slapped.

I didn’t have time to read all the receipts, but Theycallmerino put it pretty well:

You do realize that it does actually cost money to feed people when they are traveling on business, right? In reviewing some of the actual FOIA documents … some of these congressional delegations have upwards of 20, 30, 50+ people. All on one flight. That’s a lot of mouths to feed. It’s not cheap to feed that many people traveling internationally for multiple days.
Also, from the documents – on p. 14 there is an expense for $700 worth of food from Sam’s Club in Waldorf, MD, and $150 from Costco. Freakin’ Sam’s Club and Costco – discount wholesale warehouses, to stock the plane. Yes, clearly they’re just out of control and spending recklessly. On p. 17, you can see the actual reciepts – lasagna (I’m assuming frozen), mixed nuts, lettuce, cucumbers, cake. Why didn’t Rob show us those? I can’t believe these congressional delegations are eating cake on the taxpayer’s nickel!!!

So, all in all … a ridiculous headline, more partisan hackery. Let’s take two years of all travel expenses for congressional trips of dozens of people, highlight the alcohol receipts, and pretend there’s not much else.

The reason why the speaker flies in a government jet is supposedly because of security. Nothings stopping her from paying for her own drinks.

By the way, the airman on an Air Force plane have to pay for their own box lunches.

Lick ‘em,

Are you saying that if we cut off their access to taxpayer paid transportation they won’t show up for work? That’s a helluva bargain!

All in favor?

“Everybody does it.” as an excuse for corruption went away during Clinton.
This is just an attempt to distract from Pelosi’s extreme corruption.

I just wrote my congressman about this Pelosi broad abusing government funds. I encourage everyone else on here to do the same.

You need to adjust your gaydar WillHuntForCock.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that the shuttling of the Speaker didn’t come in to practice until after 9/11. So it’s hard to compare the parties, since there was only one before her (Dennis Hastert). She has, however, insisted upon a larger plane so that it wouldn’t stop for refueling from the East Coast to the West Coast.

I’m not sure if the President pro tempore gets the same courtesy. If not, maybe the newly created custom should be re-thought, and the Speaker should go back to commercial travel.

Personally, I would be ok with the tax payer paying for seven round trip business class ticket to DC for any Congressman/Senator or the cost of gas to drive six round trips (at standard GSA rates), which ever is cheaper. This would be the Congressman/Senator only, the individual would have to pay for family members (not the taxpayers). This would pay for them to arrive at the beginning of the Congressional year, spend recesses in their home district (hopefully visiting constituents), and travel home at the end of the Congressional year. Standard per diem rates would also be given to provide meals on travel days (75% of full per diem). This would have them travel like the rest of the Gov (more or less).

So…your argument is that two wrongs make a right?

Not very compelling….

Like that! And it’s Friday. Happy hour here we come!

And I didn’t even get a liquor stimulus!

Spending this kind of money is just ridiculous. I just booked a trip for work that cost less than one weeks food and booze money for our illustrious Speaker, and I was asked to try and book a different one to try and save money for the travel budget. THe company I work for is not what you would call “small”.

Hopefully the internets get as abuzz about this as the Alito/SotU flap.

All that booze? That explains a lot of her actions!

Oh man – I’m gonna have to hose down my brain with Lysol after that – too horrifying for words let alone thought. And there isn’t enough booze on the planet.