New Gore Book About Efficient Government

Vice President Al Gore, whose “Earth in the Balance” became a best seller, has written another book, this time a treatise on the Clinton administration’s attempt to make government more efficient.

“Common Sense Government: Works Better and Costs Less,” goes on sale in bookstores today, said Gore spokeswoman Heidi Kukis.

The book is a spinoff of Gore’s report on the administration’s effort to “reinvent government.” It contains stories from federal employees who saved time and money by making small, logical, changes in the way they do things.

It also has six appendices on what government agencies are doing “to insert common sense into their actions.”

In a foreword, President Clinton says: “We in the government have a moral obligation to make government work right - to use the hard-earned money of the American people only in ways that further the public interest.”