[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 141 (Monday, October 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 3, 1994]
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                        GATT IS BAD FOR AMERICA

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, I voted for NAFTA, I voted for fast 
track, and now I feel totally betrayed by what is in GATT and the 
dishonest way it is being handled here in the Congress. I voted for 
fast track because it gave Congress 90 days to look at and discuss this 
very important trade treaty.
  Instead of open and adequate discussion, we have secrecy, and not 
just fast track but grease track. The President has broken faith with 
all of us by putting secret provisions into GATT in the first place, 
and then instead of giving us 90 days to look at GATT, he put it before 
us and gives us only 1 or 2 days here at the last part of the session 
to look at GATT, further breaking faith in that there are provisions in 
GATT or in the implementing legislation that are not even required by 
GATT.
  I would ask my friends who believe in free trade, and do I believe 
this free trade, my voting record demonstrates this, let us not get 
hustled. GATT is horrible for the American people. Let us take out the 
rip-off provisions for our inventors, for example, that slipped into 
GATT, and let us spend some time looking at this treaty rather than 
just pushing it on through. It is going to hurt America otherwise.

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