James Traficant: “That sense of the Congress speaks to some basic intent, but it does not really do that which should be done after all…”

“That sense of the Congress speaks to some basic intent, but it does not really do that which should be done after all these years of foreign aid. I have a number of other amendments that I feel very strong about, but I have talked with the gentleman about authorizing and appropriating and I am pulling back all of those. But I have one sincere effort here in the Congress, I really do, and that is this type of language. I would be willing to have the gentleman work on this language. This makes certain specifications that go a little bit beyond that sense of the Congress, but I would urge the gentleman, knowing his record, in lieu of that, to accept this language in general and to tailor where he may need it but leave it to the point where it is more than that sense of Congress. I appreciate his having inserted that through my efforts over the years, but this I think takes us into some policy that appropriators should be taking on a reasonable limitation in the use of our taxpayers' dollars on these expenditures.”