James Traficant: “I support the rule. I will not vote for the bill. The day I vote for a foreign aid bill in this House, I guess the House…”

“I support the rule. I will not vote for the bill. The day I vote for a foreign aid bill in this House, I guess the House will cave in. But I am not going to offer any amendments to cut it. I want to compliment the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan), and I think he has brought another good bill, if there can be a good foreign aid bill, to the House. But I will have an amendment that says when we give money to a country and that country is going to buy a product and they do not build the product, they do not make the product, they should buy the product from us unless they can buy it from some other developing country at less than 10 percent our cost. It is a limitation. I want the amendment in the bill. It makes the bill friendly to American workers who are busting their buns to give money overseas while we have people dying in the streets in America. The gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) has done a good job. I will not offer to cut it, and that is rare for me, because I think he has made some responsible moves. I want to credit our Democrat ranking minority member, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), as well.”