The 118 GOP Congressmen who voted for this incredible violation of parental rights were:

"Late Thursday afternoon, the Senate passed the Interior Appropriation's [sic] Bill by a vote of 83-16, which included a watered down, but still healthy version of CARA [Conservation And Reinvestment Act]. The House passed the same compromise on Tuesday 349-69, sending the measure to the President for his signature. Many have claimed victory because the compromise only authorizes the CARA programs for six years and the funding remains subject to congressional oversight, but the fact remains, Congress caved on CARA."

$12 BILLION FOR MORE FEDERAL LAND GRABS

"The compromise authorizes many aspects of the original bill. It is a six- year, $12 billion commitment that the White House supports because it gave them more than they sought through their Lands Legacy Initiative. The environmental-

ists are pleased because it dramatically increases the environmental budget and authorizes many new programs. ..."

REPUBLICANS ARE WORSE THAN DEMOCRATS

"The bill provides $2.5 billion more than President Clinton requested and $3.9 billion over the current funding of these programs -- more than doubling last [year's] federal conservation spending. ...

"[Senate] Majority Leader Trent Lott, who is a supporter of CARA, said that the 63 Senators who signed the DeWine letter supporting the passage of CARA have not given up [Editor: they want even more]. ..."

13 SENATORS VOTE CONSTITUTIONALLY

"The Interior version of the bill increases government acquisition of private lands...." Source: Liberty Matters News Service, 10/6/20, Faxback Doc 2035, 1-800-847-0227

Voting "No" in the Senate (Senate Roll Call no. 266, passed 83-13, 10/5/00) were

The Republican National Coalition for Life's FaxNotes (9/22/00) reports that "Pro-life Republicans Help Defeat Helms Pro-life Amendment to China Trade Bill - From now on, Communist China's trading status will not be scrutinized by Congress on an annual basis. Instead, China has permanent trading status as well as U.S. approval for its petition to join the World Trade Organization. No longer will China's persistent human rights abuses and military expansion be a potential obstacle to our consideration of China as a trading partner. Money talks, in this case very loudly."

CONGRESS SUPPORTS SLAVE LABOR OVER FREE LABOR

"American businesses are making a fortune on the backs of Chinese laborers who manufacture thousands of products dirt cheap which are then imported by the U.S. to be sold at highly inflated prices to American consumers. It is truly becoming difficult to find a product that is not labeled 'Made in China.'

"Pressure for passage of the China trade bill has been so great that an amendment (4128) to HR-4444 expressing the sense of Congress that the President should urge Red China 'to cease its forced abortion and forced sterilization policies and practices' and 'to cease detention of those who resist abortion or sterilization,' offered by pro-life stalwart Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) was defeated 53-43."

29 "PRO-LIFE" REPUBLICAN SENATORS VOTE FOR ABORTION

"Republican Senators...who voted against the Helms amendment were:

Juliet Eilperin reports (Washington Post, 9/14/00, p. A2) that "The House voted by a surprisingly wide margin yesterday to signal its support of hate-crime legislation that would protect gays as well as other targeted groups.

"The vote means that solid majorities in both chambers have advocated expanding federal jurisdiction to include violent crimes committed on the basis of race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity or disability. Forty-one Republicans joined 190 Democrats and an independent in supporting the motion, which instructed House negotiators to accept language attached to the annual Defense Department authorization bill."

The forty-one Republicans who voted "aye" (House Roll Call No. 471, 232-192, 9/13/00) were:

The House of Representatives rejected a motion (House Roll Call no. 310, 6/21/00, defeated 56-363) which would have withdrawn U.S. approval from the agreement which established the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The 33 REPUBLICANS, 21 Democrats, and 2 Independents voting against U.S. membership in WTO were:

HOUSE REPUBLICANS BACK CLINTON BY A MARGIN OF 164 TO 73

164 Republicans (CAPS) and 73 Democrats (lower case) voted to give permanent Most-Favored-Nation trade status to Red China (Roll Call no. 228, passed 237 to 197, 5/24/00):

The 57 Republicans (CAPS), 138 Democrats (lower case), and 2 Independents (italics) who voted against permanent MFN for Red China were:

Eric Schmitt reports (New York Times, 5/26/00, p. 1) from Washington that "When Representative Tom DeLay came to work on Wednesday, he was still a vote or two shy of the bare-minimum 150 Republicans he needed to help push the China trade bill over the top."

TOM DeLAY, G.W. BUSH, AND COLIN POWELL WHIPPED REPUBLICAN BACK-BENCHERS

"Mr. DeLay, the Republican whip, had lined up lots of help. Gov. George W. Bush of Texas was recruited to cajole several wavering Republicans. So was Gen. Colin L. Powell. Dozens of pro-grade lobbyists and corporate chieftains fanned out on Capitol Hill to buttonhole the last dozen or so undeclared members for what both camps predicted would be a nail-biter.

"Over the next crucial hours, those calls and an array of other influences paid off, as virtually every undeclared Republican, and even a few others who had been written off, broke Mr. DeLay's way. In all, 164 Republicans joined 73 Democrats [who] voted to grant China permanent normal trading status, wiping out economic restrictions rooted in cold-war policy for a quarter century. ..."

2/3 OF GOP ABANDONED ANTI-COMMUNISM

"Normalizing trade with China was a victory for the Clinton administration, but House Republicans had their own reasons for voting three-to-one in favor of the bill. Passage insured that Republicans' corporate benefactors would fully benefit....

"The House Republican leadership closed ranks behind the bill.... But they needed to produce two-thirds of the yes votes, and had a tough sell with many Republicans who balked at rewarding a trade plum to a Communist government with a record of religious persecution and political repression."

Family Research Council reports (Washington Update, 5/25/00) that "Speaker Denny Hastert (R-Ill.) spoke for most Republican House members as he appealed for support for Permanent Most Favored Nation trade status for China when he said: 'We are going to send [China] a glimpse of freedom, and the idea of Illinois' favorite son, Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator.' The Republicans delivered 164 of the 237 votes in favor of the measure. That was fully seventy percent of the majority vote The New York Times called 'a Clinton triumph.' But Georgia Republican Charlie Norwood said: 'This is not just cheap labor, my friends. This is slave labor.' Norwood was a leader among the 57 Republicans and 138 Democrats who opposed giving China permanent trading privileges. Speaker Hastert was awarded a giant fortune cookie by jubilant supporters after the vote."

Paul Sperry observes (WorldNetDaily.com, 5/24/00) that "Lost in all the glowing hype over China's 'market reforms,' 'miracle economy' and 'vast untapped' consumer base is a darker story -- one that Beijing, the White House and Washington's pro-China lobby don't want you to hear, says a prominent Chinese dissident in exile here.

"It's a secret tale of People's Liberation Army soldiers storming a depressed mining town to put down the worst industrial rioting in years. And angry jobless farmers staging a record 2,000 riots against local communist authorities.

"The unrest comes as China's unemployment rate hits a 30-year high and its economy nears collapse."

AMERICAN DOLLARS HELP SMASH ANTI-COMMUNIST PROTESTS

"Such internal pressures are the real reason Beijing wants to lock in trade favors with the U.S., says dissident Wei Jingsheng (pronounced: Way Gin-shun), the father of China's democracy movement. It desperately needs money for the PLA to retake Taiwan, but also to smash uprisings.

"'It's highly unstable over there,' Wei said in a recent interview."

FDR PROPPED UP STALIN -- GOP KEEPS ZIANG JEMIN IN POWER

"Speaking through an interpreter, Wei said the communist regime is losing control over the masses. Denied unemployment benefits, while seeing more and more butter diverted to guns (and the pockets of PLA princelings), the country's 800 million peasants are growing increasingly restless, he said. 'The economy is in very bad shape,' he said. 'There is a possibility of revolt.' ...

"High unemployment is not limited to the countryside. It's climbed to 20 percent in the cities, says economist Peter Brain of the National Institute for Economic and Industrial Research in Melbourne, Australia.

"Sources in Beijing report hordes of unemployed drifters being kept from Beijing (and Western eyes) through routine dragnets on the highway approaches to the capital. In Guangzhou, tens of thousands of unemployed are told to sit each day, like potted plants in a massive square."

FORCED MIGRATION OF 300 MILLION PEASANTS AIDED BY HUD

"To boost sagging consumer demand in the cities, communist leaders are planning to move 300 million peasants into cities and towns in what will be the world's largest forced human resettlement. (It looks like the Clinton administration is helping in the effort. HUD recently signed a deal with Beijing to help it build new public housing.) ...

"Last year's budget deficit hit a record. Some 70 percent of current borrowings are going to service existing debt, Brain says. At 21 percent of GDP, China's debt is five times higher than it was in 1995, says Brookings Institution economist Nicholas Lardy."

ANTI-U.S. MILITARY BUILD-UP IS SUBSIDIZED BY MFN

"How did it get in this mess? Through the biggest military buildup on the planet (though Japan's depression hasn't helped). The Chinese Communist Party, which funds the Central Military Commission, has ordered eight years of double-digit hikes in military spending.

"Modernizing the military is the Chinese Communist Party's real aim in cutting a trade deal with the U.S., Wei says."

GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED BANKS REDIRECT THE $$

"'Since the Chinese government runs the banks, they will take Western loans and turn around and put them into the military,' he said. It will also apply U.S. technology to develop new weapons systems.

"The PLA controls some 15,000 companies. Though their sales total about $10 billion, most are poorly run and lose money. But without the PLA, there is no communist control. So the army must continue to be fed, Wei says. 'The Chinese government doesn't really care about investments,' he said. 'They just care about staying in power.'"

Seven opportunistic Republican Senators contributed to the 50 to 49 victory of the gun control lobby when the U.S. Senate on May 17 voted "to demand prompt Congressional approval of new gun controls".

Eric Schmitt reports (New York Times, 5/17/00, p. A11) that "Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, today sharply criticized a bill backed by Senate Republicans that would set a deadline for withdrawing American ground troops from Kosovo. Mr. Bush called the bill a 'legislative overreach' that would tie his hands if he becomes president. ...

"Until today, momentum seemed to be building among most Senate Republicans for the measure, which would cut off funds for the 5,900 United States forces in Kosovo by July 1, 2001, forcing their withdrawal, unless Congress authorizes an extension. Many Republicans said they assumed that Mr. Bush endorsed the measure, which may be voted on as early as [May 24]. ..."

"'The Clinton-Gore administration has failed to instill trust in Congress and the American people when it comes to our military and deployment of troops overseas, but the governor does not believe this provision is the way to resolve the lack of presidential leadership,' Scott McClellan, a spokesman for Mr. Bush, said. 'Governor Bush views it as a legislative overreach on powers of the presidency.'"

"Top aides to President Clinton have recommended that he veto an $8.6 billion military construction bill if the Senate language is attached. The bill includes $4.7 billion for American military operations in Kosovo, anti-drug efforts in Colombia and other defense spending."

Eric Schmitt adds (New York Times, 5/19/00, pp. 1, 10) that "In a victory for the Clinton administration, the Senate...narrowly rejected a measure to set a deadline for withdrawing American ground troops from Kosovo. Gov. George W. Bush of Texas had also criticized the measure, but even so 40 Republicans voted for it."

SPENCER ABRAHAM, BILL ROTH, ORRIN HATCH AND OTHER Y2K CANDIDATES IGNORE THE CONSTITUTION

"By a vote of 53 to 47, senators stripped a provision from a military construction spending bill that would have cut off funds for the 5,600 United States troops in Kosovo by July 1, 2001, forcing their withdrawal unless Congress authorized an extension. ...

"Fifteen of the 55 Republicans voted for a Democratic amendment to strike the withdrawal language from the $8.6 billion military construction spending bill. At least two or three Republicans, including Thad Cochran of Mississippi, said they were swayed by the opposition by Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. ..."

"'The intent of the amendment is to restore congressional oversight over the Kosovo mission,' said Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, the provision's chief Democratic sponsor. 'Of course, the administration doesn't like it. They want a free hand to participate in military adventurism whenever and wherever they please. They don't want to hear a peep out of Congress.'"

If anyone needs further persuasion that drug-addicted AIDS-infected homosexuals should be excluded from employment in hospitals, restaurants, and other places where they can do harm, one need only observe the example of a recent health catastrophe at the highly regarded Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

294 GEORGETOWN HOSPITAL PATIENTS PLACED AT RISK

As reported in The Washington Times (2/25/00, p. C1), "Carolyn Jousse, 45, has been troubled since opening her mail this week and learning a drug-addicted employee of Georgetown University hospital may have switched her pain-killing drug, fentanyl, with saline from a dirty syringe.

"She is one of 294 Georgetown patients to whom radiology technician Jeffrey L. Royal could have transmitted an infectious disease in the five months he worked at the hospital."

AN ASP IN THE BOSOM IS MORE DEADLY THAN A SNAKE IN THE GRASS

"Ms. Jousse had undergone surgery 10 times before but never had she suffered such severe pain as Nov. 23 when she screamed, pleaded and prayed to die.

"'I screamed bloody murder. I kept asking for more painkillers....Doctors said I had enough to kill a horse,' said Ms. Jousse, 45, Rockville resident and mother of two teen-agers. 'I was asking them to kill me,' Ms. Jousse said, recalling her recovery immediately following spinal surgery."

DRUG ADDICTS SHOULD NOT BE HIRED TO OVERSEE HEALTH CARE

"Two months earlier, Jeffrey L. Royal, 40, had started working in the interventional radiology department. Two months after Ms. Jousse's surgery, Georgetown University Hospital charged him with siphoning pain-killing drugs from patients' supplies.

"It was on Feb. 2 that a clinical manager and nurse saw Mr. Royal use a syringe to take drugs from a patient's medication dispensing pump, court records state. Hospital security found four syringes and a small bottle in his shirt pocket. The narcotic in two syringes was fentanyl, the same drug that Ms. Jousse had been prescribed. Campus police arrested Mr. Royal, of Kensington, immediately. He was arraigned in U.S. District Court Tuesday on charges of tampering with consumer products, a felony."

SELF-INFLICTED PROBLEMS SHOULD NOT BECOME PUBLICLY PROTECTED "DISABILITIES"

"Georgetown officials have mailed letters to the 294 patients who were in that unit during Mr. Royal's tenure there, from Sept. 8 to Feb. 2.

"The hospital is urging them to come in for free tests to determine whether they were infected with such diseases as hepatitis and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The letters explain that infections from blood or other bodily fluids might have occurred during 'unauthorized and inappropriate use of medical equipment.'" Of course, the Americans with Disabilities Act pushed through Congress in 1990 by Senate GOP Leader Bob Dole and President George Bush purports to require that AIDS carriers be hired, on the basis of their apparent disability.

Senators who voted against enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act were: Bill Armstrong (R-Colo.), Christopher Bond (R-Mo.), Jake Garn (R-Utah), Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), Gordon Humphrey (R-N.H.), Jim McClure (R-Idaho), Steve Symms (R-Idaho), and Malcolm Wallop (R-Wyo.)

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