[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 30, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H930]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              JOINT MEETING WITH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC

  (Mrs. MINK of Hawaii asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MINK of Hawaii. Mr. Speaker, I have filed a privileged 
resolution and hope that the leadership of this House will consider it 
before the resolution itself and its contents become moot.
  The resolution asks the Speaker to disinvite the President of France 
to come to a joint session to address it on February 1. There is an 
awesome responsibility in nations that possess nuclear power. And in 
this time and age, certainly we are sophisticated enough and advanced 
enough to reject the possibility, even, of a nuclear war.
  So for such a nuclear power to say that continued tests were 
necessary, even after their prior government in France had declared a 
moratorium, to me seems to be an insult not only to humanity but to 
future life on this planet. Therefore, I feel that the House, being 
host to such a person who has violated moral responsibilities of 
leadership, would be against the conscience and integrity of this 
House.
  I ask Members not to attend such session.

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