[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 42 (Thursday, April 6, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H1853-H1854]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
PRESIDENT CLINTON'S TRIP TO INDIA
(Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, we serve in historic times. This is the first
administration in history to consume $50 million in what amounts to a
6-day expedition. The President has just returned from an official trip
to India and Pakistan. On this trip, he took 77 Air Force planes and a
huge entourage. He said he was going there to try to stop the arms race
between India and Pakistan. It seems that the President and his aides
spent more time sight-seeing at the Taj Mahal and looking for tigers
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than engaging in productive diplomacy, and all of this cost the
taxpayers $50 million.
How interesting that it took Ken Starr 6 years to spend that much
investigating indiscretions at the White House, and the White House
called that investigation a waste of taxpayer money. Think of it, 6
days of sight-seeing versus 6 years of investigations. It turns out
that Starr may have been the most frugal executive branch employee of
them all.
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