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WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers and watchdog groups worry that allowing federal employees to charge up to $250,000 on their government-issued credit cards for Hurricane Katrina-related expenses will lead to a repeat of past abuses.

Some of the cards in the past were used to pay for prostitutes, gambling activity, even breast implants, government audits have shown.

[img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] About 250,000 federal employees have government credit cards, which typically have a purchase limit of $2,500. At the request of the Bush administration, Congress increased the credit line to $250,000 as part of a massive Katrina recovery bill approved last week. The aim is to make it easier to speed aid to victims.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said the "outrageous increase" was "slipped" into the bill. He is seeking to insert language - a quarter of a million people with a quarter of a million dollar credit limit card on the tax payer? Now I see why I have to work Sunday, haha [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Credit line story