[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 13 (Thursday, February 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 10, 1994]
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   HAITIAN SANCTIONS VIOLATE STANDARDS OF DECENCY AND INTERNATIONAL 
                                JUSTICE

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, what does it take to get the attention of the 
House of Representatives and this administration?
  How many more babies, sick and elderly must we kill with our policy 
of sanctions on Haiti?
  How many more Haitian bodies must wash upon Florida's shores?
  I ask you, how much more misery must we, by our action and inaction, 
impose on the people of Haiti?
  We have sent our forces to Grenada, Panama, and last week we voted to 
spend $1.2 billion to support our military presence in Somalia.
  We have drawn deadlines in the sand only to see them washed away by 
the blood of Haitian martyrs.
  Every deadline has passed for action, and time and again the White 
House and this administration have fumbled.
  We continue to underwrite the United Nations and they fail to act.
  I ask my colleagues, has the United States, the United Nations and 
this Congress abandoned every standard of decency and international 
justice?

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