[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7415]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



VISIT TO THE SENATE BY A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF DEPUTIES OF THE FEDERAL 
                           REPUBLIC OF MEXICO

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, it is my pleasure to present to the 
Senate today Alfredo Phillips, who is a member of the Congress of the 
Nation of Mexico. I have gotten to know him in 3 years now at the 
interparliamentary conference between the United States and Mexico. We 
have had 39 years of interparliamentary conferences between our two 
nations. He has an extraordinary history in banking.
  He was Director of the North American Development Bank, which is part 
of the NAFTA agreement. He has been Executive Director of the 
International Money Fund for 4 years. He is General Coordinator of 
International Affairs of the PRI. That is his title now. He was 
Mexico's Ambassador to Canada, Ambassador to Japan, and chairs the 
Foreign Relations Commission for the Congress of Mexico.
  He got his degree in humanities from the University of Mexico and his 
degree in economics from the University of London. He studied at George 
Washington University. His wife Maureen is a wonderful lady who my wife 
Mary and I have had the pleasure to meet. His son Alfredo is in an 
economics section of the Mexican Embassy here in the United States.
  Mr. President, it is my pleasure to introduce Mr. Alfredo Phillips to 
this body. He is known to many of our Senators and Congressmen.

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