Congressional aides on a jaunt to Annapolis, Maryland have said discussions on US long-distance telephone companies was well within the gift ban it established itself to stop Congress and Senate members taking advantage of their positions. Trip members traveled by bus taking in a few rounds of golf, a crab feast, a cruise down the river, volleyball, a ghost tour of the town and soaked up the atmosphere in local restaurants and bars. Participants had to pay their own green fees.
