11 lawmakers spend $500,000/person to take a taxpayer-funded vacation?

Do you really need to spend $500,000 to take a 11-day vacation to New Zealand, Hawaii, etc. to study global warming?? We'd like to stay at the Royal Hawaiian too, but $600/nt is too expensive, so we're going somewhere cheaper! When will you realize that WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY YOU NEED TO LIVE FRUGALLY!

FTA: The spokesman for Mr. Baird said he would have been "every bit as happy camping as staying in a [$600/nt] hotel."
Well then WHY DIDN'T YOU???

And the top 5 spenders on this trip of 11 people were ... democrats, of course. QUIT SPENDING MY MONEY FOOLISHLY!