[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 58 (Thursday, May 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 12, 1994]
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         AMERICAN TROOPS SHOULD SERVE UNDER AMERICAN COMMANDERS

  (Mr. GINGRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, I very much agree with the last Member's 
comments about the need for bipartisanship and for working together. I 
would just say that next week if the defense authorization bill comes 
to the floor, we will have a chance to be bipartisan and to work 
together.
  There are a number of steps that have been taken recently which would 
place American troops under U.N. commanders. The Vice President said 
recently that what he wanted to extend condolences to the families who 
had lost loved ones in Iraq in the service of the United Nations.
  Mr. Speaker, there is a deep feeling on the part of the Clinton 
administration that the United States must subordinate itself to the 
United Nations in Bosnia and other places. I think when the defense 
authorization bill comes to the floor, there will be a bipartisan 
opportunity, which Republicans will take a lead role in, trying to 
offer some amendments that will make clear that American troops should 
serve under American commanders, that America should never be 
subordinated to a world talking organization, and that some very 
serious thinking has to go into the Clinton administration's pattern of 
spending American money not on American defense but transferring that 
money out of our defense to subsidize the United Nations which is 
clearly ineffective, which is clearly unable to get the job done, and 
which clearly does not understand and is incapable of leading the world 
to peace and to security.

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