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On the recordFebruary 3, 1994
in a $10 billion bill, the cuts the gentleman has enunciated are like a fly on our face. Congress better recognize we have an elephant eating out our behind here. Billions of dollars should be cut from foreign aid. Billions of dollars should be cut from American tax dollars. Spending it for the troops in Japan and Germany, Tokyo and Frankfurt, cashing their checks, economic development for these other countries, and we are going bankrupt. If this previous question is defeated, I want a commitment from the Democrats that the Buy American amendment will be accepted.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Traficant addresses foreign aid cuts and the need for a Buy American amendment.

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