[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16950-16951]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           THE FIVE-STAR AMERICAN GAS STATION IN AFGHANISTAN

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, thanks to the American taxpayers, what 
might be the world's most expensive gas station was built in 
Afghanistan. A mysterious Department of Defense special task force 
spent $43 million on a gas station in Afghanistan.
  Mr. Speaker, that must be a humdinger of a truck stop. What should 
have only cost $500,000 cost 140 times that amount, charged to the 
taxpayers' credit card. Yet, there are no answers or explanations.

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  Mr. Speaker, it has now since been reported that Afghans don't even 
use the gas station because of the cost of the gas.
  No one has been held accountable for such wasteful government 
spending, not surprisingly. This is getting to be normal for government 
``spendocrats.''
  Time for no more Washington spending-sprees on the taxpayers' dime. 
People need to be held personally responsible for such wasteful 
spending.
  The American people deserve an explanation. After all, it is their 
money that is funding $43 million gas stations in other countries.
  Mr. Speaker, why are we building a five-star gas station in 
Afghanistan anyway?
  And that is just the way it is.

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