[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 137 (Monday, October 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H9351-H9352]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   TAXPAYER FUNDS SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 
                                BAILOUTS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, Russia got $20 billion, Asia got over 
$100 billion, and now International Monetary Fund wants a $30 billion 
bailout for Brazil. That is right, the same Brazil that illegally dumps 
millions of tons of steel in America, below the production cost, 
destroying American jobs and American families.
  Unbelievable. Think about it. Bailout for Russia, they sell missiles 
to our enemy; bailout to Asia and Japan, they rip us off with illegal 
trade; bailout to Brazil, they destroy American jobs. What is next, a 
bailout for Saddam Hussein?
  We are not playing monopoly down here. These are taxpayer dollars. 
Enough is enough. Last I heard it was Uncle Sam, not Uncle Sucker. I 
yield

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back the balance of the hard-working jobs that the steel industry is 
losing.

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