Luke Rosiak
Investigative Reporter
June 21, 2019 9:17 PM ET
Qatar is a nation that spends billions of dollars to influence the U.S. and has been accused of funding terrorism.
Six Democrats, most with key chairmanships of interest to the foreign country, accepted a trip paid by the wealthy oil nation’s government.
Two, including one congressman on the intelligence committee, did not disclose the trips on mandatory ethics forms designed to root out foreign meddling and conflicts of interest.
One shrugged off the omission an “oversight†while the other didn’t respond at all.
Six Democrats took an all-expenses paid trip paid for by the government of Qatar in December, but two of them did not disclose it, annual ethics forms reveal.
Democratic Reps. Donald Norcross of New Jersey and Jim Himes of Connecticut did not report taking the trip to Doha, Qatar, on their mandatory disclosure forms, but Buzzfeed said they were there at the elaborate Doha Forum gathering in December.
The congressmen hold sensitive positions that make them targets of influence for Qatar, a wealthy Arab nation.
Himes is on the House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence and is chair of its Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research subcommittee. Norcross is on the House Armed Services Committee and chairs its Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittee.
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