[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 102 (Wednesday, September 6, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H7221]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  PRESIDENT CLINTON'S TRAVEL EXCESSES

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Madam Speaker, remember back in 1992 when President 
Clinton was criticizing then President Bush for his travels around the 
world? And remember in the Democrat Convention they had T-shirts that 
said, ``George Bush's around-the-world tour''?
  Well, it has been 8 years. Let us look at the record. President 
Clinton has been one of the most widely traveled of all Presidents, 
according to the Washington Post. He has traveled with huge entourages. 
He has spent almost $300 million just in the last 3 years. And while 
his term is ending, President Clinton decided to go on one more 
worldwide tour while he still was on the taxpayers' tab.
  According to the GAO, Clinton and other government officials had been 
on 159 trips in the last 3 years.
  Mr. President, it is time to come home and tend to business.

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