[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13554]
[From the U.S. 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- 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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