[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 22352]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   THE VICE PRESIDENT'S MISSTATEMENTS

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, our prayers and condolences go out to our 
military personnel as well.
  Mr. Speaker, the Vice President promised us last night that he was 
going to try to do better at telling the truth from now on. But his 
performance said otherwise.
  He told the moderator that he never called George Bush a bumbler, but 
he is running commercials right now that say exactly that. He said he 
was not in favor of big tax hikes on gas and oil but he was 
Washington's number one supporter of a Btu tax on fuel. He even wrote a 
book calling for hiking the price of gas to $2.50 a gallon.
  But here is the real whopper. He criticized former President Bush for 
not removing Saddam Hussein from power during the Gulf War. But on 
January 30, 1991, Senator Gore said he opposed invading Iraq to take 
out Saddam Hussein. He said the war should stop as soon as Iraq was out 
of Kuwait.
  He said that he wants more effective gun prosecutions, but Justice 
Department gun prosecutions have dropped 46 percent during the Clinton-
Gore administration.
  Vice President Gore promised he was going to try to do better. Well, 
he is going to have to try a lot harder than last night.

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