[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H94]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            KUWAIT AND CHINA

  (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, in 1991, America went to war. America 
went to the front lines to free Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. America 
spent over $75 billion. American troops died in the gulf. American 
troops still suffer from that war disease.
  After all that, ladies and gentlemen, let us talk some business. 
Kuwait just awarded China, that is right, China, a $391 million 
contract to build two oil gathering projects. Now, if that is not 
enough to change the oil filter, folks, Kuwait did not even consider 
American bids. Think about it. After good old Uncle Sam saved their 
assets, put our young people's lives on the lines, quoting news 
reports, Kuwait did not even consider American bids. Beam me up. With a 
foreign policy like this, it is a wonder we have any budget to balance.

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