This is interesting on where it was placed, on a “defense bill”. I wonder if we will hear any of the CEOs speak out on this one? With technology, web meetings are now taking the place of having to physically group in one setting. Granted, everything can’t be handled this way, but many meetings are being converted to web meetings. Is anything with this type technology being attempted to help our leaders be more efficient? Have any of the members tried a web visit with a doctor? I am just curious if we are all in this together. BD 
Although lawmakers repeatedly chastised the private jet travel of government-bailed auto executives, the nation's so-called public servants have covertly allocated hundreds of millions of public dollars to buy fancy new airplanes to ferry them around the globe.
The three Gulfstream 550 jets—each costing about $65 million—will be purchased with a $332 million allotment that Congress conveniently slipped into a defense bill. Passed in the House last month, the measure originally included nearly $200 million for one executive jet but the House Appropriations Committee added an additional $132 million for two more, according to the Capitol Hill paper that broke the story this week.
The multi million-dollar addition specifies that the two extra elite planes be assigned to the District of Columbia units that fly members of Congress and top government officials. To circumvent earmark disclosure laws, the $132 million allotment was classified as an “expansion” of an existing Defense Department program so the legislation need not reveal what lawmaker requested the additional funds.
$332 Million For New Luxury Jets To Ferry Congress | Judicial Watch
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