[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 69 (Thursday, May 22, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3175]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       FOREIGN POLICY REFORM ACT

  (Mr. GILMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in support of our 
Foreign Policy Reform Act, which will be coming before the House next 
month. This bill is the first Republican-led foreign policy blueprint 
since our party wrote the Marshall plan legislation some 40 years ago.
  The bill will consolidate two Federal agencies into the State 
Department, saving a number of employees. It will choke off aid and 
nuclear fuel for the Castro dictatorship, it will block aid to Russia 
until it stops its help to Iran, and it nails deadbeat diplomats, 
making sure they would be prosecuted either here or back in the host 
country.
  This bill was endorsed by major PVOs and 40 major groups, including 
Mothers Against Drunk Driving and many of our Irish groups. Driving 
this measure are a number of organizations that are supportive of what 
we are doing. Accordingly, I urge my colleagues to support the Foreign 
Policy Reform Act that will be before us early next month.

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