[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6093]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PORKER OF THE WEEK AWARD

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, last month 238 employees of the National 
Immunization Program held a conference at the luxurious Century Plaza 
Hotel in downtown Beverly Hills.
  The event cost $1,015,900.
  This money could be used to immunize 13,500 babies. But I suppose a 
conference among bureaucrats in beautiful Beverly Hills was more 
important.
  I am told the conference organizers selected Beverly Hills because of 
a recent outbreak of measles in Los Angeles. I wonder how many of the 
infected were in Beverly Hills at the time of the conference.
  For whittling away taxpayer dollars so that bureaucrats can live high 
on the hog, the National Immunization Program gets my Porker of the 
Week Award.


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