U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe leads in trips abroad

Here is a list, compiled from U.S. Senate and House records, of the official foreign trips taken by members of the Oklahoma congressional delegation since January 2007. The dollar amounts represent the total cost of per diem allowance for the duration of the trip. On trips to locations such as Iraq and Afghanistan, the per diem costs are low or nonexistent because lawmakers stay in military housing. Transportation costs are listed separately if they were provided by the House or Senate. Most of the travel was done in military planes.

→Total cost: $1,055

May 10-14, 2007: Italy, Kuwait, Iraq

→No costs available

June 14-19, 2007: France

→Total cost: $969

Aug. 28-31, 2007: Ger-many, Serbia, Kosovo, Jordan, Iraq, Ireland

→No costs available

Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2007: Mauritania, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland

→Total cost: $324

March 24-31, 2008: Cape Verde, Zambia, Cote d’Iviore, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Germany

→Total cost: $135.31

July 11-15, 2008: United Kingdom

→Total cost: $504

Dec. 2-7, 2008: Cape Verde, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Qatar, Afghanistan, Kuwait,

United Kingdom

→Total cost: $314.18

April 3-10, 2009: Ger-many, Qatar, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Ghana, Cape Verde

→Total cost: $477

June 2009 (exact dates not provided): France

→Total cost: $655

→No costs available

Feb. 7-12, 2008: Iraq,

Kuwait, United Arab

Emirates

→Total cost: $980

→Transportation cost: $9,887

April 3-10, 2009: Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Romania.

→Total cost: $892

→Transportation cost: $11,159

→Total cost: $3,413

Jan. 5-15, 2008: Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, Morocco

→Total cost: $3,046

Aug. 2-9, 2008: Greece, Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan

→Total cost: $5,674

July 27-30, 2008: Kuwait, Iraq, Germany

→No costs available

→Total cost: $806

May 27-June 3, 2008: Belgium, France, Spain

→Total cost: $4,146

June 13-16, 2008: Ecuador

→Total cost: $150

→Total cost: $403

Dec. 20-24, 2008: Kuwait, Iraq, Dubai, Afghanistan, Germany

→Total cost: $488

→Total cost: $483

Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2007: Ghana, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Poland, Czech

Republic

→Total cost: $943

Aug. 1-14, 2009: Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China,

Canada

→No costs available