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OCR Page 1 of 8Nemt Gingrich
(202) 225-2800
Sixth District
Genrgia
Mexico
The Speaker's Press Room
United States House of Representatives
Mashington, BC 20515
SPEAKER GINGRICH REQUESTS ADMINISTRATION TO COMPLY WITH
MEXICO BAILOUT LAW
Issues Letter to the President
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 4, 1995) - House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) today sent
letter to President Clinton expressing his serious concern that the Administration is in
a violation of the Mexican Debt Disclosure Act, which the President signed into Law on April 10.
Gingrich said Congress enacted the legislation after the Administration failed to
respond to a resolution of inquiry, passed on March 1, requesting documents relating to the
White House policy on Mexico's economic crisis within 14 days.
"Your violation of the Act's disclosure requirements means that the Administration's
current expenditures on the Mexican assistance program. including the 53 billion medium-term
loan that you extended to Mexico subsequent to your signing of the legislation, are a direct
violation of federal law," Gingrich wrote in the letter.
Gingrich said the letter he received from White House Counsel Abner Mikva, dated
April 14, not only "failed to satisfy the requirements of the law, but proposed withholding
documents from legitimate congressional oversight under any circumstances.
The carefully drafted provisions of the law give ample protection to classified and
other sensitive information," Gingrich added. "If Congress allows the President to sign a bill
into law and then blatantly violate that law, it's hardly worth the paper it's written on. The
President has a responsibility to the American people to uphold the law of the land and respond
fully to the disclosure requirements outlined by the act."
Attached are the following documents: the letter from Gingrich to the President, the
Mexican Debt Disclosure Act the signed presidential certification (which fails to fulfill the act's
requirements); and the letter from the White House Counsel.
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