it seems each holiday season a hot new toy or doll takes the Nation by storm. Parents and kids line up and pay hefty prices for the item of the season. If it is not beany babies, it is a doll called Tickle Me Elmo. If the Vice President has his way, this year's sensation will be a new doll called Scare Me Al. Scare Me Al is a carved wooden doll with one of those pull strings connected to prerecorded messages for our kiddies. It says things like, ``Today was the hottest day in the history of the world.'' Pull the string again and Scare Me Al will tell your kids that unless you get rid of that sport utility vehicle that mom uses to drive them to soccer practice, the ice caps will melt and raise the sea levels until we all drown. Scare Me Al is the perfect companion for all of the EPA taxpayer- printed coloring books and other literature which relate the same frightening global warming scare stories to the children K through 12. As for me, Madam Speaker, I would rather take my chances with the Clinton Justice Department, and buy my grandkids a new game of monopoly.
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Discussing the commercialization of toys and environmental messaging aimed at children.
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