[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H309-H310]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        KINGSTON CRITICIZES EXCESSIVE TRAVEL OF ENERGY SECRETARY

  (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 am glad that the Member from the other 
side brought up travel. Let us talk about travel.
  When the Speaker goes on a trip, he is paying for it with his own 
campaign money. But when your Democrat Secretary of Energy goes on a 
trip, for example, $660,000 to South Africa, $500,000 to Pakistan, 
$845,000 to China, $50,000 on the weekly shuttle to Vienna, Moscow, or 
Paris, or the low-discount rate 

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to India at a mere $729,000. You want to talk travel?
  Why do we not start with the Secretary of Energy? Because I think it 
is timely when you are laying off Federal employees because your 
President will not sign a budget, he vetoes appropriations bills, when 
his Secretary of Energy could just about single-handedly balance the 
Federal budget by just cutting out her travel expenses for 1 month.

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