Dan Burton: “let me first say that I just listened with great interest to my colleague from Ohio. I think she is right on the money.…”

“let me first say that I just listened with great interest to my colleague from Ohio. I think she is right on the money. I would like for my friends who are paying attention to this special order to know that this is a bipartisan concern about the circumvention of the will of the people and the will of the Congress. I think it is wrong. Mr. Speaker, there were many of us that worked on the draft legislation for the loan guaranty program with Mexico. In the draft legislation we had many conditions spelled out to protect the American taxpayer and to put in some other things that were very important to our hemisphere. I am the chairman of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. We put things in there that we thought would put the heat on Castro in Cuba and stop Mexico from giving aid, direct or indirect aid to Castro. We wanted to put $3 billion in hard assets in American banks to protect American taxpayers against a loss or a default. All those things are circumvented by this Executive order. I think the gentlewoman is right on the money. The people of this country ought to be outraged, as well as their Representatives in the Congress.”