[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]


                 MORE THOUGHTS ON THE BAILOUT OF MEXICO

  (Mr. SANDERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Speaker, all over this country, working people and 
elderly people and those people who do not have a lot of money are 
wondering about what is going on in Washington with regard to the 
bailout of Mexico.
  We have always been told that if people want to invest their money, 
especially making risky investments, sometimes you win but sometimes 
you lose.
  Investors in Mexico over the last several years have received very 
high rates of return on their investment, and that is fine. But 
recently some of those investments have turned sour. It seems to me 
and, I believe, a majority of the Members of this House that the U.S. 
Congress and the taxpayers and the President and the Republican 
leadership should not be bailing out those investments.
  Members of Congress demand the right to vote, to debate, to discuss, 
to learn about the bailout of Mexico. The gentleman from Mississippi 
[Mr. Taylor] will soon be introducing a privileged motion to begin that 
process.
  I would urge our colleagues to support that motion.

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