Any idea who is paying for all the travel arrangements and hotel arrangements that Murtha is using? Seems to me that he's been traveling around quite a bit....
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Originally posted: May 7, 2006
On the trail with Rep. Murtha
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Posted by Antonio Olivo at 7:04 p.m. CDT
Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), the decorated military veteran who has become one of the party's loudest critics on the Iraq war, is traveling across the country to help his fellow Democratic candidates.
Today, he arrived at Northwestern University with Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). A crowd of about 400 people in Evanston gave the pair a standing ovation.
If Democrats win control of Congress in the midterm elections, Murtha pledged that "there will be a serious investigation, with full subpoena power" on how the Iraq war was conducted by the Bush administration.
Murtha, the ranking Democrat on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, renewed his call for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. He blamed President Bush for damaging the reputation of the nation, declaring: "Our prestige has dropped to the lowest credibility in the history of the United States."
"We can't win this thing militarily. We're caught in a civil war," Murtha said. "I'm not saying there's going to be complete peace in Iraq when we leave. I am saying they're in a civil war and the only people who can solve it is the Iraqis."
Top Ten House Travelers: 1990-1999
Trips, Days, Countries
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Doug Bereuter, R-Neb.
52 trips, 296 days, 117 countries
Floyd Spence, R-S.C.
34-260-107
Donald Payne, D-N.J.
32-222-96
Solomon Ortiz, D-Texas
29-264-104
Benjamin Gilman, R-N.Y.
28-177-97
Thomas Bliley, R-Va.
27-170-49
Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
27-119-51
Alcee Hastings, D-Fla.
24-186-169
John Murtha, D-Pa.
24-73-46
Owen Pickett, R-Va
23-189-68 |
