[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 140 (Friday, September 30, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 30, 1994]
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                            DO NOT RUSH GATT

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, no trade agreement 22,000 pages long, and no 
trade bill 1,000 pages long, should be rammed up against the closing 
deadline hours of this session of Congress. I know a fastball when I 
see one.
  Let me congratulate the gentleman from South Carolina from the other 
body. Yesterday he actually made an incredible request: He wants to 
read the 1,000-page draft bill called GATT before the other body votes 
on it. The House should do no less.
  If this legislation is so essential, should we not give it as much 
time as we gave the California desert bill?

                              {time}  1100

  So I say to the President of our country, to the Finance Committee in 
the other body and the Ways and Means Committee in this body, I 
understand the rush, oh, yes, I understand it real well, but it is not 
right. We should not rush this bill through in the closing hours of 
this session. Let us do it next year when people have had a chance to 
vote on something that they have read.

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