[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 4, 1994]
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                             THE GATT VOTE

  (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, this House should not be forced to vote on 
GATT in the closing hours of this session. As I am speaking, a 
bipartisan letter bearing signatures of over 100 Members of this House 
is being delivered to the Speaker. In fairness to both proponents and 
opponents of this agreement, Mr. Speaker, the bill should either be put 
over until the next Congress or at least not force this House to vote 
on the agreement without having the opportunity for the other body to 
be debating it simultaneously.
  Let me just mention that on page A7 of the Washington Post today is 
another reason not to vote to bring this agreement up now. It talks 
about a special deal included in the bill for the Washington Post and 
its affiliate, the American Personnel Communications, a company that 
will get a deeply discounted license for any wireless services as a 
result of language buried in GATT, and very interestingly the ad is 
paid for by one of the companies that did not get benefited, Pacific 
Telesis Group.

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  There is a lot in this legislation that should not be there, and we 
have a right to know what it is to have enough time to study what is in 
GATT. Let us take the time to deliberate.

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