[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16047]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                             MOROCCAN GIFTS

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, Mrs. Clinton has decided that she wants New 
York to be her new home. Of course, if New York decides this fall that 
the feeling is not mutual, she may decide to move somewhere else.
  She certainly has no lack of friends in other places. Just this 
weekend she was in Annapolis, Maryland, raising money from the rich and 
famous. And we are pretty sure she still has some friends back home in 
Arkansas.
  But it seems that some of her very best friends are from more exotic 
places. Last year she returned from the country of Morocco with $52,000 
in gifts from Moroccan leaders.
  One of the presents she received was a $20,000 purse. That is one 
heck of a purse. It has gold overlay, 64 diamonds, and 11 garnets.
  I suppose, to be fair, we should point out that her husband was held 
in such high regard by the Nicaraguans that he came home with a $650 
humidor for his cigars to be put in.
  With friends like these, who needs the Senate?
  But it must be lonely at the top.

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