Lodging attributed to each Member office in the House Statements of Disbursements, including: payments to the Member, office travel-card (Citi) charges, and direct hotel payments, with reimbursements to individual staffers excluded. Expenses are assigned to the year incurred; 2025 is complete, including late-reported expenses in the Jan–Mar 2026 statement.
Source data: View the spreadsheet of all 861 Bergman lodging line items, 2017–2025, used in this analysis. All data is drawn from the official House Statements of Disbursements.
Lodging expenses incurred per calendar year, staff reimbursements excluded
Bergman’s rank among all Members by annual lodging spend (1 = highest spender)
Top 10 Members, 2017–2025, staff reimbursements excluded · House median Member: $30,333
Source. All figures come from the U.S. House of Representatives’ Statements of Disbursements, the official quarterly public record of every House office’s spending. This analysis uses the quarterly detail files from Q1 2017 through Q1 2026.
What counts as lodging. Line items categorized as Travel → Lodging and attributed to a Member’s office: payments to the Member, charges on the office travel card (Citi), and payments made directly to hotels. Reimbursements to individual staffers are excluded. The files carry no explicit reimbursement flag, so staff reimbursements are identified by person-format payee names.
Assigning expenses to years. Each expense is assigned to the calendar year of its recorded performance start date — when the expense was incurred, not when it was reported. The Jan–Mar 2026 statement is included so that 2025 expenses reported late are captured and 2025 is complete.
Comparisons. Variants of the same Member’s name are deduplicated. Each year’s rank and House median are calculated across every Member appearing in that year’s files, including Members with no lodging spending. The nine-year ranking covers all 878 Members who appear in the files from 2017 through 2025.