Monday, May. 23, 1994
Grounded
Last week the Senate voted 95 to 4 in favor of banning gifts from lobbyists and other special-interest groups. What's been lost? Here are some free trips three of the holdouts took during 1991-92. (The fourth, freshman Robert Bennett, a Utah Republican, hasn't yet filed financial-disclosure forms.)
DESTINATION SPONSOR
Ernest Hollings
Myrtle Beach, S.C. Philip Morris
San Diego American Textile Manufacturers Institute*
Savannah, Ga. MCI*
Frank Murkowski
Edinburgh Rowan Drilling*
San Francisco Martin Marietta*
Seattle Boeing
West Palm Beach, Fla. American Medical Association*
Malcolm Wallop
Houston American Petroleum Institute*
London Enron Corp.*
San Diego Edison Electric Institute*
[TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: Public Citizen's Congress Watch *Also paid for wife.}]