Marcy Kaptur

United States manufacturers manufacture 60 different models of right-hand drive vehicles both in this country and around the world, and for a Member from the State of Michigan to speak out against the United States, and we are hemorrhaging…

This leads to my second question. Then it is my understanding that under the legislation the President would not have to provide the documentation until the last day of the first month after which this legislation is passed, which would…

Mr. Speaker, I would like to know whether if we vote for this, we assure ourselves that until the President certifies that without exception every requested document has been turned over to Congress, all further Mexican bailout funds…

I would just like to endorse his proposal to the membership to sign House Discharge Petition 2, the Stockman-Sanders discharge petition. There is a bill ready to come to the floor supported by a large number of Members on both sides of the…

I think that, however, as we try to plug the dike, the holes in the dike of our increasing debt, this $17.3 billion action is really going to be somewhat fruitless because at the same time there are billions flowing out the other side of…

Is not it time someone in this House rang the alarm bell to say enough is enough, and I call on Speaker Gingrich to allow our bills to move to the floor to stop the further outflow of taxpayer dollars to Mexico.

I say to the gentleman that Drabik was a very distinguished resident of my district for many years until his death about a year ago. We were very proud of his service. He was the first U.S. soldier across the Rhine.

I am telling you, if those people on Wall Street and in the banks around this country made as risky investments as this group did down in Mexico, our entire banking system would be in a state of collapse.

But maybe you do not know what my finances are like. I mean, would you not want to know the credit history of that person, what kind of assets the person had? And there is absolutely a risk that something might go wrong. Cosigning the loan…

I kept listening to the President when he said, ``Oh, this is not anything serious. This is just cosigning a loan.'' I would say to the gentleman from Oregon and the gentleman from Vermont what if someone came up to you and said, ``Would…

I know that there are working people across this country who feel that they have lost voice at the highest levels of our Government. What is equally disturbing to think about, Mr. Speaker, is that for the people of Mexico who have no…

It is interesting, because I come from the Midwest, midwestern part of our country, as did the gentleman from Ohio, Congressman Brown, who has joined us, the gentleman from Vermont, Congressman Sanders, comes from the northeast, the…

Mr. Gingrich was a very strong supporter of NAFTA, and in fact when NAFTA got in trouble, he ended up rounding up the votes to ultimately pass it. There were I think 43 votes that were switched at the end.

If I might reclaim my time just for a second, does it not interest you that over the last year the Federal Reserve of our country raised interest rates six times, and during that period of time, of course, it became more lucrative for…

I am glad the gentleman put that on the Record. We asked over 12 questions, over a dozen questions; the first one: Who are the creditors that Mexico was paying off, seeing as how they were going to be borrowing the money from us to do it…

What it works out to is that every 28 cars that come up from Mexico to the United States, we send down 2 cars, and in trucks it is even worse. For every 33 trucks that are built by these companies sent into our market, we send down there…

This is why we asked the Secretary of Treasury which specific interests, which banks, which investment houses, which corporate interests are Mexico's creditors at this point. We would like to see who owns those firms. We would like to see…

That is what we are told, Friday, when everybody is worn out and wants to get home to meet with their constituents over the weekend. So they are going to bring the balanced budget amendments up early in the week, and all the discussion on…

One of the interesting points here is how people get hold of these bonds. You know, part of what Mexico owes is money that is owed on the old Brady bonds. For those of you who are TV junkies, maybe you know this, back in the 1980's, the…

If there is a default--and as I say, Mexico has never paid back its debts. It owes $89 billion it is not paying off right now. It means that we pledge the full faith and credit of the people of the United States to pay the debts of Mexico.

I support all kinds of skilling up of the American work force and our kids in school, and vocational programs, and after-school programs, and college programs. But the point is, if we have got companies taking those jobs someplace else…

Just for a second, it interested me at what point the Government of Mexico decided to devalue the peso. You know, they have their Presidential elections in August, so everything was quiet up until August. Then we had a GATT vote here, and…

When we are sending this letter, and I am glad you led me in to it here, the second question in our letter to the administration is to what specific banking and corporate interests does Mexico's first $26 billion in outstanding obligations…

Would it not be great if every American who owned a home mortgage could do the same thing? In other words, rather than paying their mortgage payment next month, all they have to do is call the Federal Reserve, sit around the table, and…

I rise with my colleagues to offer sympathy to the family of our great speaker, Thomas P. O'Neill, and to his wonderful family, and to say to them, thank you. We keep you all in our prayers, and we keep him in our prayers. Learning from…