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Dawn Zimmer: the recent General Accounting Office revelations on Hazel O'Leary's junkets show that her performance is even worse than…

On the recordJanuary 5, 1996
the recent General Accounting Office revelations on Hazel O'Leary's junkets show that her performance is even worse than we had imagined. There are hundreds of thousands of dollars that are completely unaccounted for of the expenditures that she made in her trips overseas. She spent more days out of the country than in the country, including a trip to South Africa for $663,000 with 63 staffers using Madonna's airplane; India for $730,000 with 37 staffers; Pakistan, $500,000; China, $845,000; Vienna, three times to beautiful Vienna, one time with an entourage so large that a diplomat from the United States wired back to the State Department that the size of her entourage exceeded critical thermonuculear mass. Moscow, four times, London, Brussels, Florence, Hong Kong, Prague, Costa Rica, the Ivory Coast. Mr. Speaker, it is time for Hazel O'Leary to go. She must resign or be fired.
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Dawn Zimmer
New Jersey

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Addressing the expenditures and performance of Hazel O'Leary during a House floor speech.

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