Source:
http://www.aolnews.com/house-money/arti ... f/19522761
$2.6million spent on food and beverages for House reps and their staffers
$84,794
Spent on companies that specialize in coffee
$9,450
Spent on Coca-Cola products, the equivalent of 7,000 20-ounce bottles
$565,373
Spent on carpet during the nine-month period
$317,304
Spent on new drapes during the same stretch
$7.5million spent on office supplies (like toner cartridges and pencils)
» Holding their own: Despite all the biggies in this category -- CDW, Staples, Office Depot, Boise Cascade (better known as OfficeMax) -- the No. 3 recipient of congressional cash might be the most interesting: Alliance Micro, a local firm that describes itself as "a service-disabled-veteran-owned small business" and caters to printer needs, which received $502,233.
Finishing touches: The office decorating didn't end there -- another $2.5 million was spent on furniture.
$5.3
million
Spent on computer software (the equivalent of 26,600 Windows 7 upgrades)
$11.3M
Spent on telecom service from Verizon -- mostly its wireless service but also including subsidiaries like MCI and long-defunct WorldCom.
$4.4M
Spent on telecom service from AT&T, which doesn't separate its iPhone-centric wireless service from its legacy landline service in the data
$11million spent on newspapers and other resources
$5.8million spent on Web design, e-mail and hosting services
» Frequent fliers: The top two travelers in the House? Democrats Chellie Pingree of Maine, who has 197 travel expenditures, and Ike Skelton of Missouri, who had 163 expenditures. Neither was close to being the top spender, however. One high-spending traveler was Republican Jerry Moran of Kansas, who had 145 expenditures and an $82,000 taxpayer bill.
Madeleine Bordallo, the delegate from Guam, put in for $127,368 on 33 separate travel reimbursements or charges. (She didn't take all the trips herself, as some were listed under staffers' names.) Her average reimbursement was $3,859; one reimbursement, possibly for multiple flights, cost $22,000. The flight to Guam we found on Expedia would take 27 hours and have two stops.
