[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H96]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

  (Mr. FUNDERBURK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FUNDERBURK. Mr. Speaker, I was prepared for almost anything when 
I came to Washington 1 year ago today, but I never thought that I would 
spend my time defending my constituents in an all out war being waged 
against them by President Clinton. First, Bill Clinton decides to send 
$40 billion to bail out Mexico, while our national debt stands at $4.9 
trillion and of course he does not want to balance the budget. This is 
a slap in the face of the workers in my district, who have already lost 
jobs that moved to Mexico as a result of NAFTA. Then the President and 
his FDA decided to attack the small tobacco farmers in my district, who 
struggle from year to year just to make ends meet. These are the people 
who provide the jobs, pay the taxes, and fight our wars. Clinton 
liberals are using tobacco as a politically correct shipping boy while 
a member of his administration called for the legalization of cocaine. 
Now, Mr. Clinton in a desperate attempt to salvage his reelection, is 
sending young men and women from my district to Bosnia. Many casualties 
are the likely result, and for what American national security 
interest? Mr. Speaker, I have a New Year's resolution for Bill Clinton; 
stop waging war against the citizens of the Second District of North 
Carolina.

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