Tracking Travel in Congress.
The window
- 381
- trips abroad by members
- 755
- trips abroad by staff
- 67
- countries reached
- 2,829
- trips at home
Sponsored trips abroad, January 2025 to January 2027. Offices are still filing, so every figure is a floor.
Filed trips that left between the two ends of the 119th Congress, January 2025 to January 2027. This Congress is still running and offices are still filing trips against it, so every figure here is a floor.
Trips abroad. Sponsored trips in this window that went outside the United States. A sponsor is a private organization, and the trip is filed under the gift rules. Countries reached. Destination countries on record, whether one trip arrived or hundreds. Every one of them is in the list under the map. Trips at home. Sponsored trips filed in the same window that stayed in the United States. The same rules, the same kind of sponsor, and their own map below.
A trip is one traveler leaving on one day, and a trip with several stops files a row for each of them, so a trip that touched two countries is counted under both and the country totals add to more than the number of trips. House travel comes from the gift travel filings and Senate travel from the Senate travel reports, and each trip is placed in a Congress by the day it left. This one runs January 2025 to January 2027. Senate travel is filed on paper and read by machine, and 64 rows in this window carry no destination the reader could make out. Those rows are left off rather than guessed at. 75 trips name no place that could be matched to a country or a state, most often a venue or a city typed without one. They are in neither map and are counted here rather than dropped quietly. A sponsor is a private organization filing under the gift rules, so no country on either map paid for anything: the shading is where trips landed and nothing else.
Under Members or Staff the figures count only the trips that class of traveler took.
Where sponsored travel goes
Where the trips landed
Select a country, on the map or in the list, to see the offices that filed its trips.
Who filed the trips to Israel, by party
Israel
233 trips on record215 House trips and 18 Senate trips. Filed by these offices.
- 7
1 · R · House · LA
Mike Johnson
2 taken by the member, 5 by staff
- 5
2 · R · House · MN
Tom Emmer
1 taken by the member, 4 by staff
- 4
3 · D · House · IL
Bradley Scott Schneider
2 taken by the member, 2 by staff
- 4
4 · D · House · CA
Pete Aguilar
1 taken by the member, 3 by staff
- 4
5 · R · House · IA
Zachary Nunn
1 taken by the member, 3 by staff
1,136 sponsored trips abroad reached 67 countries, January 2025 to January 2027.
A country is shaded by how many trips arrived there, never by what it spent: the sponsors are private organizations, not foreign governments. All of them are on the map above; a country drawn too small to pick out carries a dot in its own shade, and the dot hovers and clicks as the country does. Two of them have no outline at all at the world view, so their dots alone stand for them until the map is zoomed in. Select a country, on the map or in the list, to see the offices that filed its trips. The plus and minus buttons zoom the map and the circular arrow brings back the whole world; with a mouse, hold Ctrl or Cmd and scroll to zoom toward the cursor, double click to step in, and drag to pan, and on a touch screen pinch to zoom and move two fingers together to pan, while one finger keeps scrolling the page. The zoom is a magnifier and nothing else: the same countries, the same numbers behind them, with finer coastlines as it goes deeper. No name is printed on the map itself, so hover a country for its name and its number or find both in the list below.
The party split under a selected country is by the party of the office that filed each trip, never the destination’s.
A trip is filed by an office, so a count here is the member and their staff together and the line under each name says how it splits. Offices are ordered by trips to the country selected above, and Previous and Next walk every one of them. Every destination in this list is also on the map above, as a shape or, where it draws too small to pick out, as a dot in its own shade. Two in this list have no outline at all at the world view, so their dots alone stand for them there, and they become real shapes once the map above is zoomed in. Seven trips were filed by an office this Congress's roster could not name. They are counted in the country totals and absent from these lists. A country with no trips is not a country that refused one: it is a country nobody filed a trip to.
The travel that never left
Where the trips stayed home
Select a state, on the map or in the list, to see the offices that filed its trips.
Who filed the trips to Maryland, by party
Maryland
580 trips on record549 House trips and 31 Senate trips. Filed by these offices.
- 39
1 · R · House · LA
Mike Johnson
39 taken by staff
- 30
2 · R · House · LA
Steve Scalise
30 taken by staff
- 19
3 · R · House · MI
Lisa C. McClain
19 taken by staff
- 19
4 · R · House · MN
Tom Emmer
19 taken by staff
- 11
5 · R · House · OH
Jim Jordan
11 taken by staff
2,829 sponsored trips in this window stayed inside the United States, January 2025 to January 2027. 38 states are on record.
More sponsored travel stays inside the United States than leaves it, filed under the same gift rules by the same kind of organization. A state is shaded by how many trips landed in it, on the same scale the world map above uses, and a state with no trips is not a state that refused one. A sponsor here is the same kind of organization as on the map above, filing under the same gift rules: a nonprofit, a foundation, an institute, a trade group. A conference in Florida and a delegation to Israel are the same disclosure. Select a state, on the map or in the list, to see the offices that filed its trips. The plus and minus buttons zoom the map and the circular arrow brings back the whole country; with a mouse, hold Ctrl or Cmd and scroll to zoom toward the cursor, double click to step in, and drag to pan, and on a touch screen pinch to zoom and move two fingers together to pan, while one finger keeps scrolling the page. The zoom is a magnifier and nothing else, which is what brings the District of Columbia up to a size a reader can pick out. No name is printed on the map itself, so hover a state for its name and its number or find both in the list below.
The party split under a selected state is by the party of the office that filed each trip.
A trip is filed by an office, so a count here is the member and their staff together and the line under each name says how it splits. 22 trips were filed by an office this Congress's roster could not name. They are counted in the state totals and absent from these lists. Every domestic trip in this window named a place these files could read as a state.
Who files the trips
Counts every filing office, members and staff together, whatever you chose above.
Abroad
- Democratic50.5%574
- Republican48.3%549
- Independent0.53%6
- Unplaced0.62%7
At home
- Democratic35.6%1,006
- Republican63.4%1,794
- Independent0.25%7
- Unplaced0.78%22
The same window split by the party of the filing office, abroad and at home: a composition of the filings, never a score.
The party is the filing office's own, never the destination's, as this site's congress-dated roster records it on the day the trip departed, so a member who switched party mid-window is counted under the party held at the time. Where the roster holds no date for a switch, the office keeps one letter for the whole window. 29 trips were filed by offices the dated roster could not place; they are the unplaced share above rather than a guess. Each bar is a share of its own total, and each is this window's own count, compared to nothing.
Whose filings carry the most trips
Abroad
393 offices
They filed 1,129 of 1,136 trips abroad. 7 could not be placed to an office.
- 21113
1 · D · House · IL
Bradley Scott Schneider
- Member
- 2
- Staff
- 11
- Filed
- 13
- 5712
2 · R · House · NE
Don Bacon
- Member
- 5
- Staff
- 7
- Filed
- 12
- 21012
3 · D · House · CA
Pete Aguilar
- Member
- 2
- Staff
- 10
- Filed
- 12
- 5611
4 · R · House · NY
Andrew R. Garbarino
- Member
- 5
- Staff
- 6
- Filed
- 11
- 6511
5 · D · House · CA
Ami Bera
- Member
- 6
- Staff
- 5
- Filed
- 11
At home
488 offices
They filed 2,807 of 2,829 trips at home. 22 could not be placed to an office.
- 06969
1 · R · House · LA
Mike Johnson
- Member
- 0
- Staff
- 69
- Filed
- 69
- 05454
2 · R · House · KY
Brett Guthrie
- Member
- 0
- Staff
- 54
- Filed
- 54
- 04848
3 · R · House · LA
Steve Scalise
- Member
- 0
- Staff
- 48
- Filed
- 48
- 03737
4 · R · House · OH
Jim Jordan
- Member
- 0
- Staff
- 37
- Filed
- 37
- 03636
5 · R · House · MN
Tom Emmer
- Member
- 0
- Staff
- 36
- Filed
- 36
Five offices to a page, abroad and at home, ranked by the trips on file in this window. The Members, Staff and Both choice decides whose trips each ranking counts.
Every row is an office. A trip is filed by an office and covers the member and their staff together. The figure on a row follows the Members, Staff or Both choice: under Both it is what the office filed, under Members only the trips the member took themselves, under Staff only the trips its staff took, and the line under the name always shows the whole split. Each list ranks every office by the trips they filed on its own side, abroad or at home, and Previous and Next walk all of them, five at a time; offices with the same count are ordered by the same count on the other side, then by name; the figure above each list is how many offices it holds. 7 trips abroad and 22 trips at home were filed by an office this Congress's dated roster could not place, so they are counted in this window and sit in no row here. A trip is counted once here even when it touched several countries, so no row on these two lists is a row from the maps above, and the two never add. A count is a fact about how an office travels, ranked inside this window and compared to nothing: not to the other list, not to the other Congress, and not to a standard this page holds anybody to.
The pages showing now: abroad, the five filed 59, 20 taken by members; at home, the five filed 244, none taken by a member.
Find a member’s trips
The whole filed record for one office, every year we hold, home and abroad together.
- Not a country’s money. The sponsor is a private organization, not a foreign government, and no country on either map paid for a trip.
- Not a rule broken. Sponsored travel is permitted and disclosed, so a filed trip is the system working as written.
- Not a score. Offices are counted, never graded: a filing count is a fact about how an office travels, and this page attaches no judgment to a high one or a low one.
- Not one traveler. A trip is filed by an office, so a count beside a name is that member and their staff together, and every row says how it splits.
- Not a total. A trip reaches this page only by being filed and read, so every figure is a floor, and a country with no trips has not been shown to have refused one.
- Not a staff list. The filings name the staffer who traveled, and this page never does: the office is the story.
The House Clerk's gift travel filings and the Senate travel reports, each trip placed in a Congress by the day it left; this site's own congress-dated roster for the office that filed it. For the money that firms and their clients file, see Lobbying, which also carries the register of foreign agents in Washington.