[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]




                  IN SUPPORT OF PRIVILEGED RESOLUTION

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I proudly stand with the gentlewoman 
from Hawaii in her privileged resolution, asking that this body take up 
and debate whether or not the President of France should have the very 
special privilege that so few heads of state ever have, and that is to 
address this Chamber.
  I thing it will be very ironic if we are allowing a French President, 
who has nuclear weapons and who has allowed them to be tested at the 
horror of all the rest of the world standing by and watching it, if we 
allow that French President to come here and address this body but we 
do not allow a resolution of a Member of Congress with many Members 
joining with her to come up to debate it first. I must say, if that 
happens, what has happened to our democracy?
  But, Mr. Speaker, furthermore, we all know that nuclear weapons are 
very, very dangerous and with the cold-war meltdown, there is no reason 
to go throwing them around in the environment, harming people just 
because you can. That is wrong, and the French President should not be 
here.

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