[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 39 (Thursday, March 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2493]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               AN UP-OR-DOWN VOTE NEEDED ON AID TO MEXICO

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, we are not going to take food out 
of hungry children's mouths, and we are not going to cut Social 
Security. That is baloney. But let me tell you something that really is 
happening, today. The President of the United States and the Secretary 
of the Treasury are sending $52 billion, $52 thousand million down to 
Mexico, without any act of Congress.
  This is where the people's money is supposed to be spent, in the 
Congress of the United States. They could not get the votes to bail out 
Mexico in the Congress, so the President and the Secretary of the 
Treasury, who is protecting his own rear end in my opinion because he 
is a financial adviser, did an end run around the Congress of the 
United States.
  They have already sent $7 billion, $7 thousand million down to 
Mexico, and that economy continues to go down into the tank. We need an 
up or down vote in this Congress on spending the taxpayers' money to 
bail out Mexico. The President is not a dictator. He should not be 
doing it unilaterally.

                          ____________________