[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 81 (Thursday, June 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 23, 1994]
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                      SPEECHES AND EXOTIC CLIMATES

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, what do Topeka, Kansas City, Hutchinson, 
Cleveland, Indianapolis, Battle Creek, Sioux Falls, Cedar Rapids, Des 
Moines, Fort Lauderdale, Newburgh, and Enid, OK, all have in common? 
According to some media reports, they are exotic climates to which this 
Senator traveled last year for speaking engagements.
  Far from being exotic locations, these were hardly all-expense-paid 
junkets as some would lead you to believe. As publicly disclosed in the 
annual financial disclosure form I file each year with the Senate, out-
of-town groups asking me to speak simply provided air travel for the 
purpose of making a speech. No golf. No tennis. No luxury 
accommodations. Just speeches. All publicly disclosed. In fact, the 
only night of accommodations provided to me was at the Ramada Inn in 
downtown Topeka for a speaking engagement.
  And I am proud of the fact that some of the speeches I made last year 
to fine groups were able to benefit worthwhile charities to the tune of 
$69,450, most of them in my home State of Kansas.
  If we are going to be effective Senators, we must get outside of 
Washington and talk to and listen to people in the real world. We 
should be able to do that without any media distortion and misleading 
impressions.

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