Jack Kingston: “this morning Speaker Gingrich invited Vice President Gore to meet with the Republican Conference on the subject of…”

“this morning Speaker Gingrich invited Vice President Gore to meet with the Republican Conference on the subject of reinventing the Government. He stood right here at this lectern on the Republican side and talked for nearly an hour about making Government customer-friendly and constituent-responsive. He talked about the old order and the new order. He talked about listening to employees and bringing them in on the decisionmaking. He talked about cutting redtape, reducing the bureaucracy, and changing the procurement process. We on the Republican side found that we have much in common with the Vice President. We share much of his goal and his vision. I congratulate Speaker Gingrich on inviting the Vice President to engage in a bipartisan dialog. I hope that Members on both sides of the aisle can follow this example set by Speaker Gingrich and the Vice President. I hope that the sniping ends. It is always easy to build yourself up at the expense of the institution, but I hope that we do what the Vice President and Speaker Gingrich did today. We have much in common. We have much to accomplish, and we can do it together.”