[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 144 (Wednesday, October 15, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H9387]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           REJECT THE RULE ON THE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

  (Mr. SHERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, this House should reject the rule on the 
supplemental unless it allows us to do three things. First, we should 
be able to vote on an interesting issue. We are told we are providing 
$87 billion for our troops. Wrong. We are forcing our grandchildren to 
provide $87 billion for the troops. The House should be allowed to vote 
on whether we add revenue raisers to this bill, so that we can pay for 
what we are doing.
  Second, we should be allowed to vote on whether to prevent any waiver 
of the contracting rules, so that we can assure our constituents that 
all the money is not going to Halliburton in sole-source contracts.
  And, finally, as the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher) 
pointed out, we should be allowed to vote on whether this money is 
going as loans or gifts--the money, that $18.6 billion that is going 
not to rebuild, but actually to build Iraq. Why is it that we are told 
that Iraq cannot borrow the money? Because they already have $100 
billion in debt. So the question is does Saddam Hussein's debt need to 
be repaid by American taxpayers.

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