Taxpayers bankrolled 153 conferences that cost more per person than GSA conference -- By Joel Gehrke, The Washington Examiner

Since 2004, taxpayers have picked up the tab for at least 153 conferences that cost more per person than the Las Vegas party that cost the head of the General Services Administration (GSA) her job.

“It was the hope of Members of the Committee that the GSA conference was an outlier by any metric designed to quantify the waste and abuse that occurred there,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wrote to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta today. “It was not.”

The Department of Defense held 64 conferences, between 2005 and 2011, that cost more than either $3,000 per attendee or $600 per each day of a person’s attendance. Per OGR’s investigation so far, the Social Security Administration has hosted the second-highest number of the high-dollar conferences (22), while the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) comes in third with 21 events that cost more per person than the GSA’s Las Vegas conference.

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