your tax dollars at work!!!
big corp money at work here. you
stroke me and i'll look out for your interest,no??

Now that the elections are over, ABC is taking a 'hard-edge' approach with the democrats.

I don't remember ABC ever using the words 'Harry Reid' and 'Jack Abramhoff' in the same sentence. Never in the same article even. It would have made Harry look bad.

But now that it's safe to attack the dems, since they are already in power, we get these 'pseudo-attacks' from ABC, to try to make themselves appear 'objective'.

This story makes me angrier at ABC than at Harry (and I'm from NV even). They never would have ran such a story prior to the mid-terms. But now they 'pseudo-attack' him, to make them seem fair & balanced.

Where's the specific's on Senator Ried's travel?

Why cant these guys fly commercial airlines like the rest of us Americans. Oh, I forgot, they think they are better than the rest of us. They make me sick.

Why can't Dean Reanolds report something positive about the US auto industry? GM has the car and truck of the year and he and you didn't even mention that!

On the link you provided for Senator Reid, I would like to ask,
Who is the corporation that is named "Starship Enterprise Corp"? I was not able to find any legitimate info on it by google. Is this a secret agency type thing???
If so, then in the words of Anne RosannaDana, "Never Mind".

I looked into a private jet once, to fly me and some associates between San Jose and Los Angeles. It included round-trip whether we used it or not, and was 10k$!!! They should re-imburse at the actual rate, or, create some "opponents get equal time" type of treatment!

Loooook, its corruption, plain and simple. There is no right to travel!

Let's ban all corporate and union money from politics. Only U.S. citizens should have the right to donate to campaigns.

Get money out of politics!

Democrats and Republicans have now officially reached the point of setting disgusting standards to which they would send a public citizen to jail.

Greg Sudderth wrote: "Let's ban all corporate and union money from politics. Only U.S. citizens should have the right to donate to campaigns."

That would never work. The way it is now you can at least see which companies donated how much and to whom. If only citizens could donate then the companies and unions would still donate the money, but would launder it through private citizens and it couldn't be traced.

Our system of government isn't perfect, but it is better than most. It is much easier to spot corruption in the U.S. than most other countries. At least these trips were reported and the information was available to the public.

These gentlemen need to be informed that the American people have scrimped, saved and sacrificed so that they could misuse a transportation priviledge. This is not a single incident, that would be forgivable. But the abuse of their senate power has reduced them to need to take one final flight home. Use the bus for that trip.

Ever wonder why politicians 'work' so hard to get elected? There must be a big gravy-train to go after for 'government' job.

It is obvious that no real reform will ever happen no matter who is in power. I am somewhat shocked that Senator Reid would indulve in such behavior. It is time to ban all lobbyist and pacs and any other special interest as it does destroy the one man one vote concept and that of a government for the people and by the people.

Give me a break! What we must come to grips with is this fact: the US Government took upon itself the burden of regulating industry, and when it did that, it should have considered the possible repercussions. As long as we have such regulation, there will be money in politics. Most "big businesses" tout themselves as free-market, yet they would truly wish to see themselves as coercive monopolies. You know the solution to this? Get rid of the bloody economic regulations, corporate taxes, and disincentives for businesses. As soon as they have no interest in running the government, there will be no need for ethics reform.
We all would like to think that corporations are big and bad because they make money, but that is hardly evil; each of us has that same goal when going to work each day. And almost always, both we and corporations must procure earnings via methods other than the threat or use of force.

I don't object. Especially if the going rate is the cost of first class airfare. In the military, we fly our leadership around in blackhawks and chinooks. We fly the president around in his own 747. So long as these trips are for doing their job, they are entitled to it. What? Are we not supposed to pay our own elected officials? Yea, tax dollars are what pays for this stuff, but how else is it supposed to get paid? That's how America is set up to work. WE elect the officials, and WE pay for their job. Are you trying to tell me that in Corporate America executives don't "right off" the cost of travel for their jobs? Sure, yea right. This is all common sense stuff, but the media puts a spin on it to upset the American people who sometimes have little common sense to understand the big picture.

Is this a fair and balanced report; I think not? Did Rhonda forget about Harry Reid's trips or is this just biased reporting?

Can you see the Labor Unions not being able to fund the Democratic Party! And this money comes from workers who are NOT of the Democratic Party. Plus, I wonder how many people are aware than the new house speaker, Pelosi, owns vineyards in CA whose workers are NOT Unionized. I wonder how much $$$ she got the labor unions. Hmm…go figured…do as I say not as I do!

How the heck do all these Anti-Smoking initiatives get passed (look - Nevada) and Harry Greed is getting paid off by the Smoking industry???

What in the WORLD is going on???

The reason the Senate can't come down too hard is Hillary uses corporate jet travel all the time. I know this for a fact.

What really scares me is this is only two people. Let us see the truth. Let us see what everyone in the Senate and the House has been abusing!!!!

Re: ethics reform. I would feel better about our new congress if they would make it a point to address the real crime behind a corrupt congress.

Take Saipan for an example.

Remember when congress was so moved by the sworn testimony of U.S. officials and human-rights advocates that the 91 percent of the workforce who were immigrants -- from China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh -- were being paid barely half the U.S. minimum hourly wage and were forced to live behind barbed wire in squalid shacks minus plumbing, work 12 hours a day, often seven days a week, without any of the legal protections U.S. workers are guaranteed, Murkowski wrote a bill to extend the protection of U.S. labor and minimum-wage laws to the workers in the U.S. territory of the Northern Marianas.

So compelling was the case for change the Alaska Republican marshaled that in early 2000, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Murkowski worker reform bill.

But one man primarily stopped the U.S. House from even considering that worker-reform bill: then-House Republican Whip Tom DeLay.

Now I think it is clear Tom Delay is immoral. However, the likes of Tom Delay could be hiding right behind the gavel.

Congress will be reformed when they actually put real peoples lives ahead of a single minded special interest group--even if it has millions to contribute!

Uh have you seen the building they work in? Gov't started out here by, of, and for the priveleged class.

Why not make them work in cubicles like the rest of the country?

Why do they have marble bathrooms?

Of course you have to show up in your private, corporate fed jet -- it shows that not only are you arriving in style, your good friends are paying for it!

I just don't know how these corporations can afford to fly all these senators and congressman around... what about their own needs for the aircraft?

Do they just buy another 5-10 excess biz jets per major coporation for use by members of congress? It's starting to sound like they do