[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 86 (Thursday, June 30, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]


[Congressional Record: June 30, 1994]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

 
                    ADMINISTRATION'S HAITIAN POLICY

  (Mr. HUTCHINSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUTCHINSON. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the administration argued two 
preposterous propositions regarding the misguided and wrongheaded 
Haitian policy.
  It insisted, No. 1, that the sanctions are not exacerbating the 
malnutrition and starvation of thousands of Haitian children and that 
the sanctions are only hurting the wealthy.
  Second, they insisted that the recent wave of refugees are the result 
of political oppression, not economic and nutritional deprivation.
  In fact, according to a Harvard University study issued prior to the 
recent round of even tougher sanctions, it said that 1,000 children a 
month are dying because of the sanctions. Last week the U.S. Agency for 
International Development issued a factsheet that said that the embargo 
has a direct impact on the social and economic conditions of vulnerable 
Haitians whose numbers are steadily increasing.
  Mr. Gray was wrong. The administration is wrong. The sanctions should 
be lifted and a bipartisan panel should be appointed by the President 
to recommend a new Haitian policy.

                          ____________________