[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       A VOTE TO CARRY OUT OUR CON- STITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, Members who do not want to be treated like 
mushrooms will come to the floor now to speak and vote in favor of 
House Resolution 57.
  This is a critical question: What are the terms, the amounts, the 
conditions and, more to point, the constitutional authority to extend 
unlimited full faith and credit of the United States Treasury--that is, 
the funds of the taxpayers of this country--to a foreign power, Mexico? 
Do the elected Representatives of the people have a right to 
disclosure?
  A vote for this resolution is a vote to carry out our constitutional 
responsibilities, our fiduciary responsibilities as caretakers of the 
public purse; a vote ``no'' is a vote to be treated like a mushroom 
kept in the dark and fed unsavory substances.


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