[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 80 (Monday, May 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4918]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           VETERANS BENEFITS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, check this out. Military bases are 
closing all over America. Veterans benefits are being cut. Veterans 
cost-of-living allowances are being cut. Veterans outpatient clinics 
are being closed. Veterans pensions are being slashed.
  Think about that. What bothers me is our Government is going to 
provide 25,000 dollars' worth of vouchers to buy houses for Russian 
soldiers. Beam me up. Maybe I missed something down here. We have got 
veterans literally sleeping on steel grates, trying to find an 
opportunity to get a job, but we are giving $160 million to Russia so 
that these Russian troops coming back from the Baltics will be able to 
find a place to live. If they cannot, we, the American taxpayer, will 
build them a house for $25,000.
  Ladies and gentlemen, is there any reason why we are bankrupt? 
America has the best government that Russia ever had and that most of 
these other countries ever had. While we are going south, they are all 
doing well with our tax dollars.
  I say it is time to send some of these American gurus who made this 
decision over to Siberia, let them freeze their buns a little bit over 
there and maybe it will get them a house back here in America.
  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to proceed out of order 
for 3 minutes.)

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