[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 103 (Thursday, June 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6259]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


 REPUBLICANS CARE MORE ABOUT MILITARY CONTRACTORS THAN THOSE WITH THE 
                               AIDS VIRUS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. McKeon). Under a previous order of the 
House, the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Woolsey] is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, last week my best friend's son died. He was 
33 years old, HIV positive, and died from cancer--considered an 
opportunistic disease related to HIV.
  Also last week, this House voted to invest $9 billion more than the 
President and the Secretary of Defense wanted, for bombers, missiles, 
and star wars.
  I wonder how my best friend's son would have felt about that if he 
were still alive today. I wonder how he would have felt had he known 
that the new Republican majority were going to take money away from 
AIDS research and put it into wasteful military pork.
  Mr. Speaker, what are the values of this body? Where are our 
priorities? The cold war is over, but we are spending billions of 
dollars on additional B-2 bombers and Trident D-5 missiles.
  The war rages on for AIDS patients and their families, but we are 
taking their weapons away. Congress has placed an arms embargo on the 
most vulnerable people in this Nation, all because the Republican 
leadership cares more about military contractors than those who have 
contracted the AIDS virus.


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