[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 17, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H7664]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              PRESIDENT SUCCUMBS TO INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE

  (Mr. DIAZ-BALART asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton yesterday once again 
succumbed to international pressure, this time by suspending part of 
the important sanctions on the Castro dictatorship that 80 percent of 
this Congress voted for just a few months ago after Castro killed four 
Americans over international waters. Incredibly, the President who 
vetoed tort reform, citing the rights of Americans to sue Americans, 
yesterday took away the right of Americans to sue foreigners who 
traffic in property stolen by those foreigners from Americans.
  President Clinton showed once again what pressure can get you during 
this American presidency if you are an enemy of the United States. The 
North Koreans got billions of United States taxpayer dollars by saying 
that they would otherwise build nuclear powerplants. Iraq was allowed 
to sell billions of dollars of oil again. Iran was invited into Bosnia. 
Mr. Speaker, despite the collapse of the Soviet Union, a weak, 
indecisive White House such as the current one is hazardous to the 
safety of the Nation.

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