[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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               THE FAILURES OF THE CLINTON FOREIGN POLICY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
February 11, 1994, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Walker] is 
recognized during morning business for 2 minutes.
  Mr. WALKER. Madam Speaker, in the modern era you cannot have an 
effective economic policy without global security. The weaknesses 
showing up in our domestic economic arena are related to an ineffective 
foreign policy. This administration's foreign policy failures are 
jeopardizing the Atlantic Alliance, the Pacific Rim, the Middle East, 
and the Caribbean. The fallout of the resultant instability is 
undermining world economic markets and our domestic economy.
  President Bush was criticized for concentrating his attention on 
world affairs at the expense of domestic policy. It is now becoming 
increasingly clear that this administration is not paying enough 
attention to its foreign policy. The Washington Post in this morning's 
edition puts it this way, and I quote:

       President Clinton has backed off in Haiti, in Somalia and 
     now, not for the first time, in Bosnia. Positioning himself 
     as the pawn of a self-driven international machine, he has 
     abdicated what ought to be a great power's serious effort to 
     win, first, the American people and then others to policies 
     of American design. * * * As Gorazde shudders under point-
     blank Serb shelling--a war crime, by the way--he flees 
     Washington for a rally of Mustang owners.

  Madam Speaker, the questions about the Clinton foreign policy are 
whether it exists at all and whether our foreign policy failures will 
not end up destroying jobs here at home.

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