[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 62 (Wednesday, May 18, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 18, 1994]
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                 NATIONAL LEADERSHIP, OR THE LACK OF IT

  (Mr. THOMAS of Wyoming asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMAS of Wyoming. Mr. Speaker, the front page story in the 
Washington Post put it this way:

       President Clinton's stern threat to punish China with trade 
     sanctions if it fails to improve its record on human rights 
     has all but collapsed in a jumble of cross purposes, second 
     thoughts and mistaken assumptions about the ease of reaching 
     compromise with Beijing.

  The President's policy with the world's largest country has been a 
complete failure. And it gets worse from there.
  From Haiti to Bosnia, from Japan to Rwanda, the Clinton 
administration has failed to articulate a clear, consistent or logical 
foreign policy.
  Remember when the President's campaign said, ``It's the economy, 
stupid.''
  Well, if the President continues to neglect our relations with our 
competitors, trade partners, enemies, and friends, our economy will 
sink like a rock in the ocean.
  Mr. Speaker, it is not only the economy. It is leadership, and right 
now the United States isn't showing much around the world.

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