{"id":268426,"date":"2010-02-02T22:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T03:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/pelosi-congressional-delegation-take-heat-for-1-million-climate-summit-trip\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T22:01:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T03:01:21","slug":"pelosi-congressional-delegation-take-heat-for-1-million-climate-summit%c2%a0trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/268426","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi, Congressional Delegation Take Heat For $1 Million Climate Summit\u00a0Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Nancy+Pelosi_1961_19585116_0_0_14108_300.jpg\" alt=\"Pelosi, congressional delegation take heat for $1 million climate summit trip \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Although the climate summit in Copenhagen took place in December, it has recently emerged that the large congressional delegation headed by Nancy Pelosi charged taxpayers some $1 million for the trip. <\/p>\n<p>Newly filed congressional expense reports indicated that more than 150 people&#8212;including legislators, staff and even some family members&#8212;made the trip at a cost of $2,200 a day, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported. <\/p>\n<p>Further <i>CBS<\/i> investigation found that 59 House and Senate staff flew commercial to the Danish capital, costing taxpayers $408,064, while the rest used three military jets, which cost $168,351 for the flight time. <\/p>\n<p>This type of spending in the face of an escalating federal deficit and during a prolonged recession has spurred critics to question the judgment of the congressional leadership. <\/p>\n<p><i>CNN<\/i>&#8217;s Jack Cafferty wrote that &quot;we have skyrocketing deficits and national debt in this country,&quot; and asked &quot;where Nancy Pelosi gets her sense of entitlement to simply blow hundreds of thousands of dollars of our money at Christmas time so she and her colleagues can take a little trip to Copenhagen.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, Pelosi has refused to answer journalists&#8217; queries about the Copenhagen expenses and explain why the congressional delegation ended up being so large. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19585116-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19585116\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the climate summit in Copenhagen took place in December, it has recently emerged that the large congressional delegation headed by Nancy Pelosi charged taxpayers some $1 million for the trip. Newly filed congressional expense reports indicated that more than 150 people&#8212;including legislators, staff and even some family members&#8212;made the trip at a cost of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}