[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 87 (Monday, July 10, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H5660-H5661]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             GAS PRICES SKYROCKET BECAUSE OF ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Madam Speaker, every American with a car cannot help but 
notice how gas prices are skyrocketing out of control. Before summer 
began, the Clinton-Gore administration released a report showing that 
Americans could be paying as much as $1.80 a gallon for gas by this 
summer.
  But, lo and behold, the Clinton Administration is no better at 
predicting gas prices than they are at protecting our Nation's most 
classified nuclear secrets. In many Midwest and Western States, prices 
so far are higher than $1.80; how about $2.35 a gallon and rising?
  Vice President Gore, now touting his risky scheme to cut gas taxes, 
seems to forget that in 1993 he cast the tie-

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breaking vote to increase gas taxes, adding to the tax burden of 
seniors and working families in this country.
  When it comes to keeping gas prices reasonable, the Clinton-Gore 
administration has failed the American people; and now, unfortunately, 
the American people are paying at the pump for this administration's 
mistake.

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