Kansas City, Missouri (CNN) -- Amid an ongoing congressional probe into the General Services Administration, a CNN investigation has uncovered more evidence of wasteful spending at the agency, including cooking classes for employees that cost as much as $3,350 per class. For years, the GSA paid to send employees to these cooking classes to build team spirit, part of a spending pattern that the agency now says was inappropriate. Employees based in Kansas City, Missouri, attended classes at The Culinary Center of Kansas City, located in suburban Overland Park, where they cooked meals. Senator encourage GSA to 'clean house' The GSA confirmed that there were nine classes beginning in June 2007, with the last class in June 2011. The total cost to the GSA was $20,701.
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GSA is under a congressional investigation for wasteful spending
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The spending came to light after a report detailed an $823,000 conference in 2010
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CNN has found the agency also spent more than $20,000 on cooking classes
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The GSA says its new chief 'has instituted stringent new policies ... to put an end to this misuse of taxpayer dollars'
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