{"id":1322,"date":"2005-04-29T21:51:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T21:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2005-04-29T21:51:26","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T21:51:26","slug":"feeding_at_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"Feeding at the Trough: Sensenbrenner, Obey &#038; Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Christofferson summarizes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisopinion.com\/blogs\/2005\/04\/sensenbrenner-frequent-free-flyer.html\">Wisconsin members <\/a>of Congress who had their travel expenses paid for by private corporations &#038; non-profits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jim Sensenbrenner: 19 trips; 168K\n<li>David Obey: 13 trips; 73K\n<li>Paul Ryan: 6 trips: 25K\n<li>Tammy Baldwin; 12 trips: 29K<\/ul>\n<p>Hard to see how any of this benefits Wisconsinites.   Sensenbrenner&#8217;s trips were paid for by many special interests, including the Hollywood Lobbyists (Sensenbrenner&#8217;s committee has jurisdiction on copyright issues).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Christofferson summarizes Wisconsin members of Congress who had their travel expenses paid for by private corporations &#038; non-profits: Jim Sensenbrenner: 19 trips; 168K David Obey: 13 trips; 73K Paul Ryan: 6 trips: 25K Tammy Baldwin; 12 trips: 29K Hard to see how any of this benefits Wisconsinites. Sensenbrenner&#8217;s trips were paid for by many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}