LaHood-Winked?

Illinois blogger Peoria Pundit seems to have caught Rep. Ray LaHood in a lie. In a good example of blogging meets reporting, PP's Bill Dennis follows up on a claim by Lahood that a trip to France was not paid for by a lobbying group. Dennis discovers the group that footed the bill for the $15,000 trip is, in fact, a lobbying organization for the nuclear power industry.

My guess is the lobbying organization, the Nuclear Energy Institute, was interested in showing a Congressman the wonders of nuclear power. France gets a large percentage of its power from nuclear energy. Another guess would be that LaHood couldn't resist a free trip to Europe. But that's just a guess.