If you’ve been to Hawaii for a conference with a theme of “enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue,” you may have seen Rep. David Price, thanks to the Aspen Institute.
Aspen also accounts for $207,000 worth, or more than one-third, of the travel taken by North Carolina?s delegation.
Half of that was spent on a single congressman, Rep. David Price, D-4th. Price has taken 11 trips on Aspen?s tab, including a $17,000 fact-finding trip to China in 2002 and a $14,000 trek to London and Berlin last year. Other trips reported as ?fact finding” took Price to Honolulu, Puerta Vallarta, and British Columbia. The total cost of his Aspen-funded trips since 2001 totals nearly $103,000.
David Bass highlights privately-financed Congressional travel in Carolina Journal this morning and notes that Price now does his travel in an official capacity, meaning with tax dollars.
