Schock not a usually high-mileage lawmaker

Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., will renounce effective Mar 31. (Fred Zwicky around AP)

With soon-to-be-ex-Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., under investigationdug into a files

According to Sunlight’s Jacob Fenton, “For 2014, there were twenty members who were reimbursed some-more than Schock,” yet a information for a year is still incomplete. The sum includes Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., as good as Collin Peterson, D-Minn. — yet Fenton records that some of Peterson’s mileage is for an airplane. These reimbursements are from their bureau accounts for personal car mileage.

Greg Dolan, a orator for McKinley, pronounced his boss’s high sum is easy to explain: “The congressman drives any week behind and onward to his district in Wheeling,” in further to trips around a district while he is there. The roundtrip stretch from Wheeling to D.C. is about 550 miles, and if McKinley is creation that expostulate any week, it would explain many of a 107-mile daily normal Sunlight calculated.

Please note — there is no denote any of these lawmakers have finished anything wrong. But they’ll substantially start removing a garland of phone calls on this topic.

Read a whole thing here.

Sunlight Foundation has a list of tip mileage reimbursements for House Members final year. (Screenshot)

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