On May 19, 1993, several longtime employees of the White House Travel Office were fired. Some of the employees had worked there for three decades, such as Billy Dale. It was alleged that friends of President Bill Clinton, including his cousin Catherine Cornelius, had engineered the firings in order to get the business for themselves. Six days after the firing, five of the fired employees were reinstated. The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee eventually launched an investigation into the White House Travel Office firings. After a three-year investigation, the Chair of the committee, Pennsylvania Republican William Clinger, accused the Clinton administration of having obstructed the committee's efforts to investigate the Travelgate scandal. [1]

The Travelgate scandal is also linked to the Filegate scandal. Seven months after he was fired, the White House illegally obtained FBI files of Billy Dale.[2]