[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 64 (Thursday, May 9, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4658]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT POLLING

  (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, last night on NBC's television program 
called ``The Fleecing of America,'' it was revealed that Clinton's 
Department of Agriculture has hired a political pollster for $33,000, 
our tax dollars, by the way, to go out and poll some political people, 
white Americans only. This particular pollster is known for polling for 
Democrat women. And so she went out and polled, in Kansas by the way, 
white Americans not Hispanics, not blacks but white Americans, in 
Kansas, the swing voters, to find out how they were feeling about the 
Food Stamp Program.
  It just so happens that the House chairman of the Committee on 
Agriculture, the gentleman from Kansas, [Mr. Roberts], is running for 
the Senate against a female opponent in Kansas. But our tax dollars 
were being spent to find out what the Kansas public was thinking. How 
long is the American public going to put up with this? How long is the 
American public going to allow their tax dollars to be used for 
political purposes by this administration? I ask Secretary Glickman to 
ask Under Secretary Haas to resign.

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