And to avoid a tendency to be self-righteous in judging Tom DeLay or Nancy Pelozi, check out your congressman or senator.
Top 100 Trip Takers
John Breaux - Democratic Party - $158,311.92
Robert Wexler - Democratic Party - $155,137.21
Gene Green - Democratic Party - $153,873.02
Maurice Hinchey - Democratic Party - $152,169.25
Cal Dooley - Democratic Party - $148,562.50
Evan Bayh - Democratic Party - $142,884.94
Maxine Waters - Democratic Party - $132,219.23
James Clyburn - Democratic Party - $129,540.79
Philip English - Republican Party - $129,231.54
Jim McDermott - Democratic Party - $128,725.91
Harold Rogers - Republican Party - $126,882.93
Gregory Meeks - Democratic Party - $126,690.08
John Boehner - Republican Party - $126,537.08
F. James Sensenbrenner - Republican Party - $126,424.65
James Greenwood - Republican Party - $121,890.57
George Miller - Democratic Party - $119,368.70
Richard Lugar - Republican Party - $113,279.68
Ed Pastor - Democratic Party - $111,438.89
Philip Crane - Republican Party - $109,994.72
Donald Payne - Democratic Party - $105,503.23
David Price - Democratic Party - $105,047.18
Dana Rohrabacher - Republican Party - $102,982.41
Ander Crenshaw - Republican Party - $102,967.56
Howard Berman - Democratic Party - $97,203.35
Paul Sarbanes - Democratic Party - $93,045.01
Joseph Biden - Democratic Party - $90,906.28
Lloyd Doggett - Democratic Party - $86,084.67
Don Nickles - Republican Party - $84,171.90
Tom DeLay - Republican Party - $82,390.71
Shelley Berkley - Democratic Party - $82,359.05
Solomon Ortiz - Democratic Party - $80,835.45
Henry Waxman - Democratic Party - $80,306.69
Joseph Crowley - Democratic Party - $79,807.23
Don Young - Republican Party - $79,615.31
Tom Lantos - Democratic Party - $79,005.14
Jesse Jr. Jackson - Democratic Party - $77,858.53
John Duncan, Jr. - Republican Party - $77,042.33
Doug Bereuter - Republican Party - $77,005.14
Thomas Allen - Democratic Party - $75,722.97
Todd Tiahrt - Republican Party - $69,791.20
Michael Castle - Republican Party - $69,671.29
Rush Holt - Democratic Party - $67,950.43
Eliot Engel - Democratic Party - $67,471.23
Stephanie Jones - Democratic Party - $67,331.76
Sherrod Brown - Democratic Party - $66,203.33
David Obey - Democratic Party - $65,838.01
Barbara Lee - Democratic Party - $65,321.21
Tom Udall - Democratic Party - $63,597.18
Frank Murkowski - Republican Party - $63,519.79
Jim McCrery - Republican Party - $62,008.52
Howard Coble - Republican Party - $61,874.65
Bob Graham - Democratic Party - $61,696.90
Pete Sessions - Republican Party - $61,619.49
Constance Morella - Republican Party - $60,701.60
Barbara Boxer - Democratic Party - $60,233.91
Christopher Shays - Republican Party - $59,719.83
Barney Frank - Democratic Party - $59,676.55
W.J. Tauzin - Republican Party - $59,539.21
Michael Oxley - Republican Party - $59,393.68
Olympia Snowe - Republican Party - $58,526.22
Rick Boucher - Democratic Party - $58,098.38
Janice Schakowsky - Democratic Party - $57,822.06
Ed Whitfield - Republican Party - $57,529.98
Harold Ford, Jr. - Democratic Party - $57,430.59
Mike Thompson - Democratic Party - $57,121.06
Charles Stenholm - Democratic Party - $56,150.96
Melvin Watt - Democratic Party - $55,372.62
Wally Herger - Republican Party - $55,169.64
Jim Kolbe - Republican Party - $54,720.66
Pat Roberts - Republican Party - $54,681.41
Sander Levin - Democratic Party - $54,494.71
Corrine Brown - Democratic Party - $54,351.70
Jerry Weller - Republican Party - $54,059.60
Sam Farr - Democratic Party - $53,380.53
Bob Barr - Republican Party - $53,297.98
Dennis Moore - Democratic Party - $52,678.44
Tom Sawyer - Democratic Party - $52,286.35
Eni Faleomavaega - Democratic Party - $52,197.42
Danny Davis - Democratic Party - $52,074.72
Loretta Sanchez - Democratic Party - $51,651.58
David Hobson - Republican Party - $50,586.60
Earl Blumenauer - Democratic Party - $50,465.15
Ted Stevens - Republican Party - $50,393.02
Bob Etheridge - Democratic Party - $49,911.23
Scott McInnis - Republican Party - $49,852.59
Eva Clayton - Democratic Party - $49,852.19
Joe Barton - Republican Party - $49,534.95
Nancy Johnson - Republican Party - $49,515.85
Ernie Fletcher - Republican Party - $49,404.30
Nick Rahall, II - Democratic Party - $48,345.99
William Thomas - Republican Party - $47,594.15
Christopher Dodd - Democratic Party - $47,135.32
Kent Conrad - Democratic Party - $46,647.38
Robert Ney - Republican Party - $46,095.35
Richard Burr - Republican Party - $45,871.40
William Jefferson - Democratic Party - $45,372.86
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - Republican Party - $44,971.00
Darrell Issa - Republican Party - $44,956.65
Amo Houghton - Republican Party - $44,539.43
James Moran - Democratic Party - $43,531.49
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