“Congress is a very special group of people, more than 80 percent of them never left the United States, they live in their own world, so I’m not amazed about this Russophobia which is being demonstrated by the Congress at the moment.”
— Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, TV interview with France 24, Dec. 16, 2014
...there were 453 members who traveled out of the country on official business, either in 2013 or at some point in the past 15 years. That is 84 percent of the current Congress — and almost certainly is higher because our analysis of expenditure reports was just for one year and did not include senators.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/12/18/russias-claim-that-80-percent-of-congress-never-traveled-overseas/
