Which senators disclosed travel paid for by Venezuelan entities since 2015?

1. Why the records should exist — the rulebook for sponsored travel

Senate rules require pre-approval and post-trip paperwork for reimbursed travel, including a sponsor’s certification and an Advance Travel Authorization and Disclosure Form, and the Senate Office of Public Records maintains those filings for public inspection ^[1]. Congressional statutes and committee rules also require consolidated reporting of official foreign-travel expenditures and sponsor identification in many circumstances, meaning travel funded by foreign governments or private sponsors—including a Venezuelan source—should be reflected in travel disclosure filings or consolidated reports ^{[3] [2]}.

2. Where to look — the public databases and reports

The primary repositories for such information are the Senate’s Public Disclosure site and the Select Committee on Ethics travel pages (which explain filing obligations and where files are kept), and consolidated reports published quarterly or semiannually that itemize members, dates, destinations, sponsors, and amounts ^{[1] [4] [2]}. For the House there is a dedicated foreign travel database on disclosures-clerk.house.gov, and Public Citizen and other watchdogs summarize how those official travel disclosures are published and indexed ^{[5] [2]}.

3. Limits of the public record and why a name list isn’t in these sources

CRS and oversight summaries note there is no single, fully comprehensive government dataset guaranteeing complete, comparable records of all trips, travelers, costs and sponsors; reporting occurs in multiple forms and timelines and some types of travel may not appear in the same way across reports ^[3]. The specific search results supplied here include procedural manuals and databases but do not contain an extracted list naming senators who accepted travel paid by Venezuelan entities since 2015; therefore, available sources do not mention which individual senators meet the criterion ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

4. Practical steps reporters or citizens must take

To produce an authoritative list, one must search the Senate Office of Public Records disclosure database and the Select Committee on Ethics travel filings for each quarter and cross‑reference sponsor names or country fields for “Venezuela” or Venezuelan organizations, then verify entries on senators’ annual financial-disclosure reports (Schedule VII, Part 6). Watchdog guides show the mechanics: travel reimbursements and sponsor certifications are public records and consolidated reports list attendees and expenditures, so compiling names requires manual or programmatic review of those files ^{[1] [2] [6]}.

5. Conflicting interpretations and political context

CRS and oversight commentary underline competing views: the transparency framework exists, but advocates argue it is fragmented and incomplete, while congressional offices maintain that required filings and quarterly/semianal reports satisfy statutory disclosure obligations ^{[3] [2]}. The subject is politically sensitive—U.S. policy toward Venezuela has included sanctions and visa restrictions, and scrutiny over foreign-sponsored travel can be a proxy for interrogating lawmaker influence or relationships with foreign governments ^{[7] [8]}.

6. What I can and cannot conclude from the provided material

From the documents supplied, I can conclude there is an established disclosure regime and public databases where reimbursed foreign travel is filed and published, and that consolidated reports should identify sponsors and attendees ^{[1] [3] [2]}. I cannot, on the basis of the current sources, name any senator who disclosed travel paid by Venezuelan entities since 2015 because the provided material contains no such list or specific entries; that information would have to be extracted from the Senate disclosure database or the Select Committee on Ethics’ travel filings (available sources do not mention individual senator names or trips) ^{[1] [4]}.

7. Next-steps to get a definitive answer

Search the Senate Public Disclosure portal and the Select Committee on Ethics travel index for “Venezuela,” Venezuelan organizations, or sponsor names dating from 2015 onward; retrieve quarterly consolidated reports of foreign travel and senators’ annual financial-disclosure Schedule VII filings (Part 6) to confirm sponsor identity and traveler names, as described in the ethics committee guidance and watchdog primers ^{[1] [4] [2]}. If you want, I can outline a step‑by‑step search plan for those databases and the query terms to use based on the filing mechanics shown in these sources ^{[1] [6]}.