[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 76 (Thursday, June 5, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3480]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   VOTE ``NO'' ON CAMPBELL-GREENWOOD

  (Mr. SMITH of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, today two diametrically opposed 
resolutions will be on the floor, in the next order of business dealing 
with population control. The Campbell-Greenwood substitute, which is a 
substitute to a bill or amendment that I am offering along with the 
gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. Oberstar], the gentleman from Illinois 
[Mr. Hyde], and the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Barcia], promotes 
abortion on demand overseas and not family planning.
  The Campbell-Greenwood amendment does not add any pro-life conditions 
to current law. Rather, it blurs the distinction between abortion and 
family planning in U.S.-supported programs overseas. It allows U.S. 
dollars to go to the U.N. Population Fund, the UNFPA, even though that 
organization continues to support China's brutally enforced one-child-
per-couple policy, and to nongovernmental organizations that are 
engaged in a crusade for abortion on demand around the world.
  My amendment does not reduce family planning by even one penny. It 
conditions those funds to those organizations that are all about family 
planning and not about abortion promotion. I urge a ``no'' vote on the 
Campbell-Greenwood, a ``yes'' vote on Smith-Barcia-Hyde-Oberstar.

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