[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 13, 1994]
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             UNITED STATES HOUSING AID FOR RUSSIAN SOLDIERS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, reports say Uncle Sam has offered Russian 
soldiers $25,000 to buy a house if they would leave the Baltics.
  Now, if this is correct, ladies and gentlemen, what is next? How 
about Haiti; we just send Cedras to Las Vegas and slip in Aristide? Or 
how about just take the North Korean Politburo, send them to Disney 
World and stop all the nuclear weapons? Or just bribe everybody in 
Bosnia to stop fighting?
  Unbelievable. But what gets me, $25,000 for every Russian soldier to 
buy a house is called diplomacy. But to try and help an American 
soldier whose base closed and is losing their job, that is called pork.
  Beam me up. I say tell Bully Boris to get out of the Baltics. If we 
have any money to spend, Congress, spend it and help the American 
soldiers losing their jobs and tell the Russians to develop a market 
economy. They will like it.

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