[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 45 (Thursday, April 21, 1994)]
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                   BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENTS ACT OF 1993

  The Senate continued with the consideration of the bill.
  Mr. EXON. Mr. President, I think we are all very troubled with the 
situation in Bosnia, and troubled we should be. But I do not believe a 
feel-good amendment, like the one offered by Senators Dole, Lieberman, 
Mack, Lugar, McCain, Levin, Feingold, Hatch, Dorgan and McConnell, is 
one that we should adopt. I suspect and am afraid it might be adopted 
because it is one of those amendments that you can vote for and say, 
``Boy, I really did something.''
  Basically, what does this amendment do? This amendment starts out by 
saying:

       Prohibition. Neither the President nor any other member of 
     the executive branch of the United States Government shall 
     interfere with the transfer of arms to the Government of 
     Bosnia.
       Termination. The President shall terminate United States 
     arms embargo of the Government of Bosnia * * *

  And so forth.
  Mr. President, we had previously adopted a sense-of-the-Senate 
resolution along these general lines, but it was not binding under law. 
It was expressing the sense of the Senate that that should be lifted, 
and I voted for that sense-of-the-Senate matter.
  I think it is very wrong, as this amendment suggests, for the United 
States of America to take unilateral action on lifting the arms 
embargo. That has been an action of the United Nations. I still think 
that we can and should work through the United Nations on this matter.
  I will simply say that I will vote against this amendment and hope 
that it will be defeated.
  I thank the Chair, and I yield the floor.
  Mr. NUNN addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Georgia.

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