Privately sponsored trips hot tickets on Capitol Hill

By Jim Morris

Study finds almost $50 million spent on travel for lawmakers, aides

Excerpts from this story referencing "Dennis Thompson":

"… ind.'Special kind of access'Even if no favors are done for a sponsor, said Dennis Thompson, a professor of government at Harvard University, the trips "violate the p …"

'Top Gun' of travel

By Steve Henn and Robert Brodsky

Spy plane's maker spent roughly $660,000, targeted legislators' aides

Excerpts from this story referencing "Dennis Thompson":

"… mics Aeronautical Systems, the company's aircraft-manufacturing subsidiary.Dennis Thompson, a Harvard professor of public policy and founding director of the univers …"