[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4713]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   PRESIDENT CLINTON'S TRIP TO INDIA

  (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, we serve in historic times. This is the first 
administration in history to consume $50 million in what amounts to a 
6-day expedition. The President has just returned from an official trip 
to India and Pakistan. On this trip, he took 77 Air Force planes and a 
huge entourage. He said he was going there to try to stop the arms race 
between India and Pakistan. It seems that the President and his aides 
spent more time sight-seeing at the Taj Mahal and looking for tigers 
than engaging in productive diplomacy, and all of this cost the 
taxpayers $50 million.
  How interesting that it took Ken Starr 6 years to spend that much 
investigating indiscretions at the White House, and the White House 
called that investigation a waste of taxpayer money. Think of it, 6 
days of sight-seeing versus 6 years of investigations. It turns out 
that Starr may have been the most frugal executive branch employee of 
them all.

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