[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 97 (Friday, July 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 22, 1994]
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 CALLING FOR GAO INVESTIGATION OF HIGH COST TO PROTECT CABINET MEMBERS

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, with a $4.4 trillion debt, a recent news 
report is shocking and incredible. It seems that our big shot 
bureaucrats and Cabinet members are taking crime fighting in their own 
hands and spending millions of dollars to protect themselves. That is 
right, even though only one Cabinet member in the history of our 
country has been the subject of an assassination attempt, and that was 
in 1865, our tax dollars, millions of them are going to protect Cabinet 
members who most Americans cannot even name, much less identify when 
they see a picture.
  In this report it was shown that the Secretary of Agriculture spent 
$20,000 to send security agents to Switzerland. The Secretary of Energy 
spent $8,000 to send a security detail to Paris. The Secretary of 
Health, not to be outdone, used her to get her car washed.
  This time of egotistical and frivolous, wasteful spending is an 
absolute outrage in a time when we are trying to cut the cost of 
government as much as possible.
  Fellow Members of Congress, please join me and over 100 of your 
colleagues in writing the GAO for an investigation and report on this 
wasteful spending.

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