[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 11, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: May 11, 1994]
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                 OUR DISASTROUS HAITIAN POLICY DU JOUR

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Madam Speaker, my colleagues, Bosnia, Somalia, and now 
Rwanda, are all part of the failed Clinton foreign policy legacy. 
However no fiasco in foreign policy matches the Clinton disaster in 
Haiti. Our foreign policy in Haiti can be called a policy du jour. Like 
the soup du jour, it changes each day.
  Madam Speaker, last week, off the shores of my district in Florida, a 
4-year-old Haitian boy was plucked from the sea in critical condition. 
Because of last week's Clinton policy this boy, according to doctors, 
will be a vegetable for the rest of his life.
  This week's Clinton policy will be an even greater disaster for the 
people of Haiti and the people of the State of Florida. Haitians will 
flee Haiti to seek asylum. Haitians, young and old, will die with the 
false hope offered by President Clinton this week. Increased sanctions 
will kill the poorest of the poor, provide more profits for the thugs 
who have taken charge in Haiti and grind Haiti further to despair. We 
have paid billions to the United Nations, and I ask, ``Why can't we get 
consistent and positive leadership from the White House to restore 
democracy in Haiti now?''

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