[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 126 (Wednesday, October 11, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H9640]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   ONE MORE TALL TALE FROM TENNESSEE

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, a few minutes ago, we heard from the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts) telling us the tall tales of Al 
Gore, and the gentleman is right. There is a news article today about 
how Al Gore was a chicken farmer of over 10,000 chickens. This is a 
very versatile man.
  He is also the inventor of the Internet, the man who brought us the 
dog pill story, the man who says he was the reason for ``Love Story''; 
that was the first one to investigate Love Canal; that he was there 
when the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was invented, which he was not.
  He has fought against big oil, and yet his family owes its fortune to 
Occidental Petroleum. He fought against Big Tobacco. In fact, in 1992, 
he said that on his sister's death that he swore he would fight the 
scourge of Big Tobacco for the rest of his life. Well, 2 years later he 
was telling tobacco farmers that he was one of them.
  This is a man who at one time is a chicken farmer, the next he is a 
tobacco farmer, the next he is an enemy of Big Oil, the next he is a 
big protector of Big Oil. He is a very versatile man. I wish he would 
make up his mind and tell the American people exactly who he is.

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