Perhaps we should have Pelosi reimburse the public for their use of OUR (tax payer) jets for their private jollies.
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Take it up with the Airforce or the Secret Service.
She's third in line for sucession to the Presidency as Speaker of the House. As was Dennis Hastert before her.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/pelosi/jet.asp
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The White House also stood behind Pelosi.
"We think it's appropriate," he added. "And so, again, I think this is much ado about not a whole lot. It is important for the speaker to have this kind of protection and travel."
In the event, according to the Air Force, Speaker Pelosi does not routinely use the larger C-32 aircraft referenced in this brouhaha to travel between Washington and California (to the detriment of taxpayers' wallets and the environment) every weekend, as claimed in the e-mail quoted above. According to the Air Force, as of the end of 2008 she had used that larger airplane on only one occasion, when no alternative was available:
Eric Sharman, deputy chief of public affairs at Andrews Air Force Base, said that Pelosi has in the past used the C-20B and the slightly larger C-37A, depending on availability, and that these may or may not be able to make a nonstop cross-country flight depending on conditions. He confirms that Pelosi has used the C-32 once and only once, when no other planes were available.
In March 2009, Judicial Watch published various e-mails and memoranda related to Speaker Pelosi's use of military aircraft for other types of travel. As ABC News noted of those documents:
In fact, it appears that Pelosi uses military aircraft less often than her predecessor, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
The documents cover the period from January 2007 to November 2008 and show that Pelosi made the equivalent of 20 round-trips between Washington (Andrews Air Force Base) and San Francisco. That's an average of less than one round-trip per month. In contrast, former Speaker Hastert traveled home to his Illinois district virtually every weekend and, his former aides tell ABC News, he would almost always travel on military aircraft. Like Hastert, Pelosi also occasionally leads Congressional delegations on foreign trips (the documents show six foreign trips: one to Asia, three to the Middle East and two to Europe).
Moreover, the Air Force weekly travel reports reproduced in that report disprove the claim made in the e-mail stated at the head of this article: They show Speaker Pelosi making 20 trips between Washington and California in 2007 and 2008, but always on the smaller C-20B and C-37A aircraft, never on the "big fat 200-seat" [sic] C-32 jet the e-mail claims she uses weekly.