[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16553]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                RUSSIA WANTS ANOTHER $5 BILLION FROM IMF

  (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, even though Russia still owes $17 billion 
to the International Monetary Fund, Russia wants another $5 billion 
loan. And experts support it. They say, Russia needs the $5 billion 
loan to repay part of the $17 billion still in default.
  Unbelievable. If that is not enough to detoxify your ruble, reports 
say, ``Beware, Congress, Russian politicians have been stealing the IMF 
money for years.''
  Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. These experts are not only smoking dope, 
they are drinking vodka chasers if they expect me to vote for one more 
dime for a Russian loan. Borrow this.

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