[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4338]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        WHAT ABOUT FOREIGN AID?

  (Mr. FUNDERBURK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FUNDERBURK. Mr. Speaker, the first 100 days of the 104th Congress 
are over. We passed 9 of the 10 items in the Contract With America. The 
new majority set our country on a new course. But we did not go far 
enough. While we are at home for Easter, the Mexican dictatorship and 
New York City financiers will be raking in billions of American dollars 
and the lords in the Kremlin will be soaking up foreign aid while their 
planes ravage Chechnya and their scientists provide the Ayatollahs with 
nuclear reactors.
  Mr. Speaker, we desperately need a reality check. How can we 
seriously debate the future of student loans and farm programs while 
the State Department and the World Bank dispense billions of our 
dollars without the Congress saying one word? The $20 billion handout 
to Mexico City is 20 times the value of the yearly tobacco crop in 
North Carolina. Is it not tragic that Bill Clinton and his 
establishment friends in Congress will drag hard-working tobacco 
farmers in my district through the wringer and give Mexican thugs and 
Russian autocrats billions of our money with a wink and a nod?
  Mr. Speaker, if last November really was a revolution we had better 
come back here in May and cut off the foreign aid monster at its knees 
or the American people will put us out in the street.

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