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Line 60: − + − |url=http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/technology/tv.html − |title= House History:Speaker Joe Martin's Television Debut:The House of Representatives and Television − |accessdate= 2008-06-28 − |author= − |last= − |first= − |authorlink= − |coauthors= − |date= − |work= − |publisher=house.gov − }}</ref> During this time, Gore co-chaired the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, along with [[Newt Gingrich]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.12/gorenewt.html?pg=3&topic= |title=The Making of The President 2000 |author=John Heilemann|publisher=Wired |month=December | year=1995 |accessdate=2008-09-01}}</ref> In addition, he has been described as having been a "genuine nerd, with a geek reputation running back to his days as a futurist ''Atari Democrat'' in the House. Before computers were comprehensible, let alone sexy, the poker-faced Gore struggled to explain artificial intelligence and fiber-optic networks to sleepy colleagues."<ref name=biosen/><ref name=challange>{{cite web − |url=http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1998/01/9939 − |title=A Man, a Plan, a Challenge − |accessdate= 2008-06-28 − |author= − |last= Miles − |first=Sarah − |authorlink= − |coauthors= − |date= January 30, 1998 − |work= − |publisher= ''Wired'' − }}</ref> Internet pioneers [[Vint Cerf]] and [[Bob Kahn]] have also noted that, "as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship [...] the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication. As an example, he sponsored hearings on how advanced technologies might be put to use in areas like coordinating the response of government agencies to natural disasters and other crises."<ref>{{Cite web − | last1 = Kahn| first1 = Bob − | author1-link = − | last2 = Cerf| first2 = Vint − | last3 = | first3 = − | last4 = et al. | first4 = − | title = Al Gore and the Internet − | date = 2000-09-29 − | year = 2000 − | url = http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0009/msg00311.html − | access-date = 2007-06-02 }}</ref> − + + + + +
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==Quotes==
==Quotes==
* Gore said, '''''"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."''''' <ref>Blitzer, Wolf. Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'. <u>CNN</u>. 9 March 1999. 2 June 2007<[http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/ http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000 /transcript.gore/]></ref> Gore was one of the Atari Democrats who were given this name due to their "passion for technological issues, from biomedical research and genetic engineering to the environmental impact of the "greenhouse efGore was one of the ''[[Atari Democrat]]s'' who were given this name due to their "passion for technological issues, from biomedical research and genetic engineering to the environmental impact of the "[[greenhouse effect]]."<ref name=biosen/> On March 19, 1979 he became the first member of Congress to appear on [[C-SPAN]].<ref name=cspan>{{cite web
* Gore said, '''''"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."''''' <ref>Blitzer, Wolf. Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'. <u>CNN</u>. 9 March 1999. 2 June 2007 <[http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/ http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000 /transcript.gore/]></ref>
* Gore investigated problems in Love Canal and fixed them. The Love Canal controversy began on Nov. 30 when Gore was speaking to a group of high school students in Concord, N.H. He was exhorting the students to reject cynicism and to recognize that individual citizens can effect important changes. As an example, he cited a high school girl from Toone, Tenn., a town that had experienced problems with toxic waste. She brought the issue to the attention of Gore's congressional office in the late 1970s. "I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing," Gore told the students. "I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue, and Toone, Tennessee--that was the one that you didn't hear of. But that was the one that started it all." After the hearings, Gore said, "We passed a major national law to clean up hazardous dump sites. And we had new efforts to stop the practices that ended up poisoning water around the country. We've still got work to do. But we made a huge difference. And it all happened because one high school student got involved." What sparked his interest in the toxic-waste issue was the situation in Toone--"that was the one that you didn't hear of. But that was the one that started it all." <ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/12/02/politics/main72638.shtml</ref> :"That was the one that started it all. ... We made a huge difference and it was all because one high school student got involved."
* Gore falsely claimed that he discovered problems in Love Canal and fixed them. He said:
:"I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing. I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue."<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/12/02/politics/main72638.shtml</ref>
:"That was the one that started it all. ... We made a huge difference and it was all because one high school student got involved."
:"I love [[Van Jones]]. I love his work. I love his heart and his commitment and his intellect. I love his mission. He has wisely picked a part of this set of interwoven challenges that should have been addressed much more forcefully by me and others long ago.”<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_kolbert?currentPage=all</ref>
:"I love [[Van Jones]]. I love his work. I love his heart and his commitment and his intellect. I love his mission. He has wisely picked a part of this set of interwoven challenges that should have been addressed much more forcefully by me and others long ago.”<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_kolbert?currentPage=all</ref>