[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 177 (Thursday, November 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11979]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        ENERGY SECRETARY O'LEARY

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, in today's Wall Street Journal we found out 
that Secretary O'Leary, the Secretary of the Department of Energy, has 
been using tax dollars to investigate reporters that have been writing 
unfavorable articles about her. We already know that she has the 
highest travel budget of anyone of the President's Cabinet, as reported 
earlier.
  According to Vice President Gore in his national performance review, 
her environmental management is 20 percent behind on the milestones, 
which means one out of five projects is late. Forty percent 
inefficiency is going to cost us $70 billion over the next 30 years, 
unless we do something. Now we find out that she is using your money, 
taxpayer money to investigate reporters that are not giving her very 
favorable reports.
  It was a waste of tax dollars by the high travel budget. It is fraud 
and management techniques, and now it is abuse of the taxpayers to take 
their money to investigate reporters that have not been giving her 
favorable reports. I think it is time for Secretary O'Leary to move on 
and resign her post as Secretary of the Department of Energy.

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