[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 33 (Thursday, March 17, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H1627]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 REJECT WOLFOWITZ AS WORLD BANK NOMINEE

  (Ms. McCOLLUM of Minnesota asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McCOLLUM of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, I was disappointed to learn 
that President Bush has nominated the architect of the ongoing war of 
Iraq, Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, to head the World Bank.
  The nominee's intimate relationship with the Iraq policy's gravest 
failures, phony intelligence, torture, contractor corruption, and 
incompetent planning, makes his nomination extremely disturbing.

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  Mr. Wolfowitz may be qualified as an expert in conducting preemptive 
war, but he is far from qualified to battle global poverty, overcome 
the AIDS pandemic or to promote gender equity, all World Bank 
priorities.
  The world community deserves a development expert to champion the 
World Bank's mission of fighting poverty, a leader who can rally the 
world's support.
  To enhance America's reputation in the world, to ensure that future 
success of the World Bank and to build a better future for the world's 
poorest citizens, I urge the World Bank's board of directors to reject 
this nomination.

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