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From: The Washington Times | May 29, 2009
EYE FOR AN EYE? Don’t look now, but certain bureaucrats carrying Uncle Sam’s credit card in their wallets are back to spending your hard-earned taxpayer dollars on everything from first-class travel to Hawaii to laser eye surgery. The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has obtained a new Congressional Research Service report detailing abuses in the federal government travel card program, costing taxpayers “millions of dollars annually.” The CRS report looked at Government Accountability Office and federal inspector general reports and found, among other improper or unauthorized charges, $3,700 for laser eye surgery; reimbursement of nearly $10,000 for tickets that an …
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