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Today’s brief takes are so brief. I like it! Thanks for this and covering all the congressional and press happenings. I worked for the state department in an overseas embassy and I can safely say that there is NO REASON on God’s green earth for any congressional junket overseas. NONE And guess what? Foreign service officers spend HUGE amounts of time coordinating these trips. Extreme waste.

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Thank you for your honesty! There was/is huge waste in the military, too. I saw it as a civilian in the AF.

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Yes, a lady in my mother's nursing home had a son who was a General. He would fly a girlfriend over to EUROPE for lunch for the day, and then back to US. My mother would hear all these stories and tell me.

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