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“WHAT ABOUT FOREIGN AID?” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H4338 on April 6, 1995.
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WHAT ABOUT FOREIGN AID?
(Mr. FUNDERBURK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
Mr. FUNDERBURK. Mr. Speaker, the first 100 days of the 104th Congress are over. We passed 9 of the 10 items in the Contract With America. The new majority set our country on a new course. But we did not go far enough. While we are at home for Easter, the Mexican dictatorship and New York City financiers will be raking in billions of American dollars and the lords in the Kremlin will be soaking up foreign aid while their planes ravage Chechnya and their scientists provide the Ayatollahs with nuclear reactors.
Mr. Speaker, we desperately need a reality check. How can we seriously debate the future of student loans and farm programs while the State Department and the World Bank dispense billions of our dollars without the Congress saying one word? The $20 billion handout to Mexico City is 20 times the value of the yearly tobacco crop in North Carolina. Is it not tragic that Bill Clinton and his establishment friends in Congress will drag hard-working tobacco farmers in my district through the wringer and give Mexican thugs and Russian autocrats billions of our money with a wink and a nod?
Mr. Speaker, if last November really was a revolution we had better come back here in May and cut off the foreign aid monster at its knees or the American people will put us out in the street.
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