[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 145 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10673]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        MORE ON THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT'S TRAVEL PLANS

  (Mr. SOUDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SOUDER. Mr. Speaker, as a member of the Committee on Education 
and the Workforce, we have been working on education all year. Indeed 
in this budget it appears the amounts have been set and we are just 
negotiating the fine details of where it is going to be put.
  The question is why we are here right now, since we knew we were 
going to come to these straits earlier on this year and we knew what 
our differences were earlier on. Saturday the President said in his 
radio address, I do not want to see this Congress walk away from 
America's school children. Then he went out to play golf for a couple 
hours. Then he walked away all of yesterday and into last night for two 
fund-raisers in New York.
  Today the Vice President flew out down to Palm Beach, Florida for a 
fund-raiser down there. Then he goes to Miami for a fund-raiser. Then 
he goes to Coral Gables for a fund-raiser. In between he talks at a 
school in Miami about the need for us to deal with school kids.
  Mr. Speaker, the President and the Vice President should have been 
dealing with the education issue and working out the differences 
between an elected House and an elected Senate and an elected President 
and Vice President a long time ago, not trotting off and doing fund-
raisers and press conferences.

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