Remember that Jonathan Turley piece in USA Today on the various ways Congressmen get around gift restrictions and allow themselves to be legally bribed? Included was this nugget on Boehner:

For example, in 2002 Rep. Richard Burr, R-N.C., was “educated” at the expensive Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas with first-class airplane tickets, an open bar for poolside drinks and other “educational” expenses paid for by the National Association of Broadcasters, according The Washington Post. The trip’s purpose: a public policy conference. Burr later wanted to learn about the nuclear site in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. Not content to simply visit the Nevada desert, Burr and Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, arranged for a lobbyist to “educate” them and their spouses in Barcelona and Seville.

Because Barcelona and Seville are, of course, the most obvious places to learn about nuclear waste in Nevada.

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