Get out your blood pressure medicine – you’re going to need it.  The fact that these weasels can claim with a STRAIGHT FACE that they are doing the “people’s” work is disgusting.   Maybe they should have booked a personal vacation through luxury travel company  R. Crusoe and Son- it would have been only around $6000-$7000 per person – A LOT CHEAPER than the $500,000 in TAXPAYER money that these clowns waster.

Lawmakers’ Global-Warming Trip Hit Tourist Hot Spots

Penguins, a Rocket-Propelled Airplane (and Tax Dollars) Also Involved

WASHINGTON — When 10 members of Congress wanted to study climate change, they did more than just dip their toes into the subject: They went diving and snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef. They also rode a cable car through the Australian rain forest, visited a penguin rookery and flew to the South Pole.  The 11-day trip — with six spouses traveling along as well — took place over New Year’s 2008……

Lawmakers say the trip offered them a valuable chance to learn about global warming and to monitor how federal funds are spent. “The trip we made was more valuable than 100 hearings,” said Rep. Baird, its leader. “Are there members of Congress who take trips somewhat recreationally? Perhaps. Is this what this trip was about? Absolutely not.”

The knowledge gained is “profoundly important to how I do this job,” added Mr. Baird, who at the time headed the House Science Committee’s subcommittee on research and science education.

Read it all at the Wall Street Journal