Cliff Stearns: “I rise to comment on the President's recordbreaking trip to China. The President broke every record imaginable in the…”

“I rise to comment on the President's recordbreaking trip to China. The President broke every record imaginable in the size of the delegation he took with him to China and in the amount he spent on a foreign trip. His official entourage numbered more than 1,000. Its estimated cost was $40 million, according to the International Herald Tribune. "The Presidential entourage filled four passenger planes and several military transports." In addition, the retinue included six Members of Congress, five cabinet officials, who each brought almost 40 staff members, a chief of staff, a deputy chief of staff, a national security adviser, a deputy national security adviser, a press secretary, a deputy press secretary, five stenographers, two White House television crews, a valet for the President and a hairdresser for Mrs. Clinton, the President's private secretary and the White House staff secretary, speechwriters and rewriters, doctors and lawyers, snipers, commandoes, bomb-sniffing dogs, and of course, 375 reporters and photographers. Vice President Gore must have felt like the kid in "Home Alone." They spent more in 10 days than Judge Starr spent in 3 years.”