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Saturday, April 07, 2012

Here We Go Again

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he paid the government $630 for the weekly commute from his home in Northern California. But each round-trip flight costs the Pentagon $32,000. Panetta made it clear he would visit his family on the weekends when he took the job, be he has been doing that ever since he came to Washington as a lawmaker in the 1970s. He pays the normal government rate for a commercial airliner flight, but as Defense Secretary, he has to travel on secure military planes.

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