[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 96 (Thursday, July 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 21, 1994]
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   PRIME MINISTER RABIN AND KING HUSSEIN TO ADDRESS JOINT SESSION OF 
                                CONGRESS

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, last September, along with many of my 
colleagues, I was present on the south lawn of the White House on that 
historic day when the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Rabin, the Foreign 
Minister of Israel, Mr. Peres, and the Chairman of the Palestine 
Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, met along with President 
Clinton, shook hands, and signed that historic framework accord for 
bringing peace to the Middle East.
  It was a beautiful day. It was a golden day for that golden 
handshake, and I thought to myself, ``Does it get any better?''

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  The short answer is, yes. Next Tuesday, just behind where I am 
standing today, we will be addressed in the House of Representatives 
jointly by the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Rabin, and by the King of 
the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, King Hussein, who will have been on 
the day earlier, on Monday, at the White House, hopefully to sign some 
peace agreement, but, at the least, they will be talking about peace in 
the Middle East.
  This just seems to me so remarkable. I cannot help but marvel at how 
far these men of courage have come because it has been at some 
political and even personal peril that they have taken these steps to 
forge peace out of what was a raging war for decades.
  Mr. Speaker, I commend their efforts, salute them, and wish them 
well.

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