grousing about the Clinton travels. Where the hell are the Dem memos doing this?
By U.S. Senator Larry Craig
1998
I thought it would be important to do a short reality check on our President. ThePresident last week said Congress is a do-nothing Congress. They have not done their work. Why has Congress not done itswork? You know, when he made that comment about us--and I have been here hour after hour in committee meeting aftercommittee meeting, here on the floor, day after day for the balance of the year--I thought, you know, Mr. President, youme a little bit. It is time to do a reality check. So I sent staff scurrying. We compiled the President's travel log, and what I am about to report to you is the travel log of President Bill
Clinton.
For a man who is bent on remaining in the White House, President Clinton sure spends a lot of time away from the WhiteHouse. What you are about to hear is an analysis of how much time he has spent away, and why his people have not been onthe Hill, why they have not been working with us, and now in the closing hours of a Congress he is either threatening a veto or threatening that he might just have to shut down Government to awaken us. Mr. President, let's do a bit of a reality check.
Last year, President Clinton broke the Presidential record for foreign travel with his 27th trip abroad. Like the EnergizerBunny, he has continued to keep on going and going and going. This year so far he has logged 41 days in 11 countries--11different foreign countries. Some say he is traveling in foreign countries to keep his mind off domestic problems. I would notwant to make that assertion. What I do know is that the President has now broken all-time Presidential travel records with32 trips abroad, more than any other president ever. Mr. President, you are out breaking records.
However, just because President Clinton is not on foreign soil all the time doesn't mean he is in the White House. Bill Clintonalso likes to travel around the country as well. He is particularly fond of combining both domestic travel and campaignfundraisers, with at least 37 trips which include fundraisers just through this year, 1998, and there are at least 14 morefundraising events scheduled for October, according to reports. Stay
tuned as I go down through this report, because you willfind an anomaly between official travel and fundraising travel and what it is costing the taxpayers and maybe why he needs alittle bit of supplemental spending.
All told, the President has spent almost half of 1997, 149 days, as well as over half of 1998 so far, 155 days, outside ofWashington, DC. Hello, Mr. President, we are trying to get our work done here. You criticize us for being a do-nothingCongress? Mr. President, where have you been?
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