[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 49 (Wednesday, April 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H1717-H1718]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                WORLD BANK GIVING AMERICAN DOLLARS AWAY

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

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  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the World Bank, funded by American 
dollars, just gave another $250 million to Russian coal miners. The 
problem is no one knows what happened to the first $250 million. That 
is right, bye-bye, $250 million.
  Now, if that is not enough to massage your chapter 11, check this 
out: Russian officials say the $250 million is lost. Where is the 
money, Mr. Speaker?
  Since 1992, $7 billion of American money going to the World Bank ends 
up in Russia. Where is the money?
  I say, while the World Bank, with American dollars, is providing jobs 
for Soviet and old Soviet Russian coal miners, American coal workers 
are getting pink slips and black lung.
  Beam me up. I say somebody at the World Bank is smoking dope and they 
are inhaling. I think we need some common sense here. Yield back the 
balance of our carcinogens involved with this.

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