Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table the bill (H.R. 534) to require the Secretary of State to take such actions as may be necessary for the United States to rejoin the Bureau of International Expositions, and for other purposes, with the Senate amendment thereto, and concur in the Senate amendment. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Kustoff of Tennessee). The Clerk will report the Senate amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Senate amendment: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``U.S. Wants to Compete for a World Expo Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) The Bureau of International Expositions (BIE) is the organization responsible for governing World Fairs and International Expositions. (2) Section 1(a) of Public Law 91-269 (22 U.S.C. 2801(a)) found that ``international expositions . . . have a significant impact on the economic growth of the region surrounding the exposition and . . . are important instruments of national policy''. (3) The United States has not been an active member of the BIE since 2001.…”