NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: We are interrupting to take you live to the campaign trail. Al Gore is at the University of Maryland, visiting with students and faculty. And he is going to talk about that plan to make $10,000 of college tuition an annual tax deduction.</s>VICE PRES. AL GORE (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Because I remember that the -- that eight years ago we had huge deficits, the largest in history, $300 billion a year, on the way up, we had quadrupled the national debt, we had high unemployment. There was no real sense of confidence and hope that we could move in the right direction and solve our problems. But, in the last eight years, we've made significant progress. We have turned the biggest deficits into the biggest surpluses; instead of a triple-dip recession, we've seen a tripling of the stock market; instead of high unemployment, we now have the lowest African- American and Hispanic unemployment ever...</s>ALLEN: The Democratic presidential candidate, on the campaign trail in Maryland. He is going to offer up a plan to make $10,000 of college tuition an annual tax deduction. He also took the time to talk about other issues that he supports, including health care changes he wants to make. And, as we mentioned, the Republican candidate, Texas Governor George Bush, is speaking also at a the university in New Orleans today.
Gore Holds Campaign Appearance in College Park, Maryland