Majority Leader Boehner:
The Campaign for a Cleaner Congress says House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has taken more golf outings, lobbyist-funded trips, and fund-raising excursions than he has trips to his congressional district over the past six years.
The congressional watchdog group says Boehner went back to the district 149 times between January 1999 and September 2005, compared with 180 trips outside his district, including trips to Rome; Boca Raton, FL; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Pebble Beach, CA.
"That he is tanned and well-traveled is not news," Mike Casey, the group's director, told The Note, "to the extent that he is traveled on someone else's dime and that someone always wants something from him at the public's expense, I think, is news."
Boehner spokesman Don Seymour tells the Journal News of Ohio that the report is "patently misleading" and that the group "cherry-picked" information by counting only air travel and not all of Boehner's trips back to his district. LINK