[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H190]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HAZEL O'LEARY'S JUNKETS

  (Mr. ZIMMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ZIMMER. Mr. Speaker, the recent General Accounting Office 
revelations on Hazel O'Leary's junkets show that her performance is 
even worse than we had imagined. There are hundreds of thousands of 
dollars that are completely unaccounted for of the expenditures that 
she made in her trips overseas.
  She spent more days out of the country than in the country, including 
a trip to South Africa for $663,000 with 63 staffers using Madonna's 
airplane; India for $730,000 with 37 staffers; Pakistan, $500,000; 
China, $845,000; Vienna, three times to beautiful Vienna, one time with 
an entourage so large that a diplomat from the United States wired back 
to the State Department that the size of her entourage exceeded 
critical thermonuculear mass.
  Moscow, four times, London, Brussels, Florence, Hong Kong, Prague, 
Costa Rica, the Ivory Coast. Mr. Speaker, it is time for Hazel O'Leary 
to go. She must resign or be fired.

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