[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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                 THE STEALTH GATT ENABLING LEGISLATION

  (Mrs. BENTLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BENTLEY. Mr. Speaker, the stealth bill--better known as the GATT 
enabling legislation--is circling the Hill this week. As the flaps go 
down, few elected Representatives know what is contained either in the 
expected hundreds of pages in the enabling legislation or in the 22,000 
pages of the actual GATT agreement. If there have been complaints in 
the past of much mischief buried in omnibus legislation, the GATT 
legislation well might be labeled ominous and treated in the same way.
  Mr. Speaker, a vote on this legislation carries a grave 
responsibility. Never has a governmental body been presented with a 
more revolutionary proposal--some describe it as revolutionary as the 
last Weimar parliament that voted power to Hitler. If it is 
accomplished, the creation in the GATT of a powerful, unanswerable 
international bureaucracy capable of attacking the laws of sovereign 
nations may well be adjudged by history as an act as destructive of 
this Nation's well being as the ``last'' vote of the Weimar Republic 
was to Germany.
  Before being stampeded for your vote, question whether you want your 
name on this peculiar contract with history.

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