[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 4, 1994]
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                    ARMS CONTROL AT HOME AND ABROAD

  (Mr. HAMBURG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAMBURG. Mr. Speaker, as we prepare to pass a crime bill that 
will include a ban on certain types of semiautomatic weapons and an 
attempt to keep guns from our kids, it might be good to look at how we 
are doing in global arms control.
  According to a recent story in USA Today, not very well, particularly 
in the volatile nations of the so-called Third World.
  The Third World arms market is now a $20-billion-a-year bazaar and 
the United States is the merchant for nearly three-fourths of sales. 
These weapons will likely be used to create the Iraqs, Somalias, 
Bosnias, Haitis, and Rwandas of tomorrow. Four-fifths of U.S.-sold arms 
go to countries guilty of systemic human rights violations. In some 
cases, these weapons will end up being trained on our boys and girls.
  Let us pass the crime bill and begin to stop the carnage here at 
home. And let us also put a stop to the global arms bazaar and the 
poverty and death it brings around the world.

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