[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H189]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HAZEL O'LEARY'S TRAVEL EXPERTISE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I think now we can see why Mrs. Clinton 
apparently wanted to get rid of the White House travel agency; they 
have a travel expert in the Secretary of Energy, Ms. O'Leary. Listen to 
these great winter fares: India, $729,000; Pakistan, for a mere half 
million dollars; China, $845,000; and the new low winter discount, 
South Africa for $560,000. No wonder the White House does not need a 
travel agency. These are great rates.
  I understand, Mr. Speaker and Members of Congress, if you like to 
travel with your family, your friends, your staff, your associates, the 
persons you stand next to in the grocery store line, anybody you happen 
to see on the street, bring them all. They have a fleet of airplanes 
that used to belong to Madonna or somebody like that, and they can let 
you fly in comfort with an airplane with stand-up bars, beds, piped-in 
Barbra Streisand music and everything else in the world. It is a 
wonderful thing to be doing while the Federal employees are shut out of 
work because we pay $20 billion each month on interest on the national 
debt.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a national scandal. I would say it is time to do 
the right thing. Resign, Ms. O'Leary; let the taxpayers have a break.

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