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last christmas, scotlands health secretary michael matheson went on a week—long holiday to morocco. he brought along his ipad, which was issued by parliament, and while he was there he racked up a data roaming bill of almost £11,000. this is a breakdown of his ee usage, which was released by parliament, and it shows that he used more than six gigabytes of data while on that trip. he assured staff that the ipad was being used for parliamentary business, and of that business the parli...

State capitol to ask the head of the air resources board. >> i have the cnn news here for mary nichols. after an hour after waiting, we get sorry, no interview. >> its been a difficult situation for all of us. i cant go any further than that. >> reporter: difficult why? >> because of the circumstances surrounding this. im sorry. thats all ive been allowed to tell you. >> reporter: the agencies did have to defend the spending to lawmakers. the vehicles, according to the transportation department,...

Contract provider. >> reporter: state contracts, state workers get a $7,000 desk? state assembly members, audra and hector, a republican and democrat are on the oversight committee that brought the spending to light. >> its an insult to folks having to make tough choices in their own families and own small businesses. >> reporter: the problem is what to do about it. it seems government employees are virtually impossible to discipline, let alone fire, and lawmakers dont even have direct authority...