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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS
By Rep. Burr P. Harrison
Every day and night, thousands of persons are traveling abroad at the expense of taxpayers of the United States. Some of them are members of the armed forces going from one assignment to another. Others are diplomats, couriers, for■ eign aid program personnel or members of Congressional investigative or study missions.
How much of this travel is essential ? How much can be branded fairly as joyriding on public funds? Under the present federal accounting system with respect to travel expenditures, it is not easy to get the answers to these questions. Unquestionably, it is necessary for us to spend large sums of money to move our military personnel among the many bases we operate around the globe, to send men home on leave and to send forth replacements. In addition, our farflung foreign aid establishment and our hundreds of diplomatic posts produce a recognizable need for considerable official travel.
If a bureaucrat takes a plane for steaming Burma in the rainy’ season or for .Greenland in midwinter it is reasonable to assume thar legitimate government business, rather than a desire for carefree, cost free travel, has lured him from his native-heath. On the other hard, heavy official travel to Ha
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