[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4260]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  WE PLEDGED AN OATH TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, NOT THE WORLD TRADE 
                              ORGANIZATION

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, even though Article 21 of GATT clearly 
states any Nation can take action when their military security is 
threatened, the White House has vowed to veto any bill on steel 
imports.
  Beam me up.
  We cannot defend America with plastic and Styrofoam. It seems the 
White House is more concerned with violating the World Trade 
Organization than they are in violating America's steel workers.
  Let me remind Members of Congress we pledged an oath to the 
Constitution of the United States of America, not the World Trade 
Organization.
  I yield back all the bankruptcy, despair, downsizing, layoffs and 
foreclosure of America's steel workers.

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