[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 14, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 14, 1994]
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                    STAND UNITED AGAINST NORTH KOREA

  (Mr. RICHARDSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, now that North Korea has pushed the 
United States to the brink of confrontation by refusing nuclear 
inspections, it is critically important that we back the President and 
not politicize the North Korea issue here in the Congress, as we have 
Bosnia, Haiti, and Somalia. American vital interests are at stake here, 
and we cannot appear divided to Kim Il-Song.
  Mr. Speaker, one reason why things are politicized around here is 
that nobody wants to talk about the fact that the projected deficit is 
down for 3 years in a row for the first time since Truman was in the 
White House; the fact that our deficit as a percentage of national 
income is now the lowest of any major economy in the world; and the 
fact that after the first 16 months of President Clinton's 
administration, we have created more than 3.1 million private sector 
jobs, nearly 1 million more jobs than those created in the 4 years of 
the Bush administration.

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