[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 21014]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



             AMERICA NEEDS INTEGRITY IN THE ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. GARY MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARY MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, guess who made this 
claim: I have been a part of the discussions on the Strategic Petroleum 
Reserve since the day it was first established.
  That boast was made a few days ago by Al Gore, who was not even 
elected to Congress until 2 years after the Strategic Petroleum Reserve 
was established. He took credit for it, but he was not even in Congress 
when it happened.
  Two days ago in the Presidential debates, Gore claimed that he was at 
a Florida high school when a student had to stand in class because the 
classroom was so overcrowded.
  The principal of that school laughed when he heard the claim and 
said, ``We have never allowed a student to stand in the back of a 
classroom or to stand in a classroom.'' He also added that the 
classroom in question, a science lab, has about $150,000 this year 
alone in new equipment.
  Why does he have to keep making these things up? What drives him to 
take credit for so many things that he clearly had nothing to do with?
  Mr. Gore has a problem with the truth. We need leadership that knows 
the difference between self-serving fantasy and reality. Our country is 
hungry for integrity.

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