Multimillionaire is biggest moocher

I guess I missed this last week, and it's kind of a dog-bites-man story given what we already new about our moneybags Congressman, but Political Money Line has updated its list of Congressional travelers who let private organizations foot the bill. And it's worth noting. Their report:

JOIN CONGRESS - SEE THE WORLD
Part II - Privately Funded Travel

Members of Congress have received over $20 million ($20,396,896) during the last six years traveling around the world at the expense of private organizations.

This includes 640 Members of Congress who made 6,932 trips. Democrat Members took 3,920 trips, Republican Members took 2,994 trips, others took 17 trips.

The analysis of Congressional trips by PoliticalMoneyLine covers gifts of privately-funded travel from 2000 through 2006 as disclosed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate.

And the top traveler is ...

Freebie Jim Sensenbrenner.