During hospitalization, members must bear a portion of the meal expense.

When news of Corbett's meal expenses was made public, he was quoted as saying "I screwed up and it won't happen again".

The undocumented meal expenses, he said, often were for political action meetings and get-out-the-vote drives.

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Careful record-keeping, segregating partly deductible meal expenses from wholly deductible travel expenses, is essential in case the I.R.S. challenges the return.

Mr. Conway said that Mr. Trudden' records were incomplete, so the former mayor had to rely on memory for about two years' worth of meal expenses.

In response, Martin was accused of claiming too much in meal expenses.

I mostly cooked in youth hostel kitchens, which kept my meal expenses down to about $20 a day.

Businesses could deduct only 50 percent of meal expenses, instead of the current 80 percent, and the top business tax rate would go from 34 percent to 35 percent for companies earning $10 million or more.

In 2001, the oversight board forced Richard Lyter, executive assistant to the union's secretary-treasurer, to resign after it found that he had taken $3,400 in unauthorized meal expenses.