[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 115 (Thursday, September 4, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H6806]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         POLITICAL ``NEW MATH''

  (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, summer is over, schools are open, the kids 
are back, reading, writing and arithmetic.
  There are a lot of ideas kicking around about how best to teach to 
our children. One creative, yet controversial, idea in Houston asked 
math problems using street examples about drug dealers and guns and 
prostitution and murder and so forth.
  Maybe that idea was a bad one, but we could try some political 
questions.
  For example, if illegally using White House phones, Al raises $30,000 
a call from Democrat fat cats, how long does it take him to raise an 
illegal $120,000?
  If Al reimbursed the taxpayers $24.20 for raising the $120,000, how 
much profit does he make?
  If Bill rents the Lincoln Bedroom for $100,000 a night, how many 
nights does he have to rent it to raise a million dollars?
  If the Clinton appointees state under oath ``I can't recall'' once a 
second, how long would it take them before we have heard it one 
trillion times?
  You know, the Democrats are real upset about campaign finance reform. 
It is about like asking Mike Tyson to lead a fair-fighting commission.
  It is absurd, Mr. Speaker. Let us start looking at the White House if 
we want to talk campaign finance reform.

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