[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 4, 1994]
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                 GATT: NOT FAST TRACK, BUT GREASE TRACK

  (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 the fast 
track for GATT, and today I stand here and tell you I feel totally 
betrayed at the way this administration has handled GATT. The fast 
track was supposed to give us 45 to 90 days to look at this important 
change in our trade laws. Instead it has been submitted to Congress 
with 10 days left before the end of the session.
  We are being told pass it now or the world trading system will 
collapse. That is what we are being told. That is not fast track, that 
is grease track.
  Why are they so frantic to have the GATT implementation treaty passed 
so quickly that we will not even have a chance to read it? Something 
that is so important to the economic well-being of our countrymen for 
years and decades to come.
  The reason they want to get it done fast is because hidden in GATT 
are special favors to special interests, ripoffs of the American people 
to the tune of billions of dollars.
  I say as a free trader, I say as someone who believes in democracy, 
the GATT implementation legislation should be turned down; take the 
ripoffs, like the patent ripoff, out of the GATT implementation 
legislation.

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