[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 62 (Wednesday, May 18, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 18, 1994]
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                         THE BIPARTISAN BI-WAY

  (Mr. HASTERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTERT. Mr. Speaker, there are two roads to health care reform. 
The partisan path is cluttered with extremist plans, conflicting 
ideologies, some stubborn chairmen, and far-off dreams.
  Every good intention, every brilliant idea, every necessary reform on 
this path is bottled up in policy gridlock.
  The bipartisan path is free of the partisan extremism found in the 
first road. It contains only those willing to put special interests 
aside for the national interest rather than building these useless 
bureaucratic loops. It promotes common sense and quick action.
  Every single American will be impacted by the health care reform bill 
that Congress passes, and yet it appears that some remain willing to 
keep health care reform a partisan issue.
  Let us put partisanship behind and craft a health care reform bill 
that can pass with over 300 votes in this House that will be real 
change.

                          SLAUGHTER IN RWANDA

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, as history records this past month, 
unfortunately it will recall another sad chapter in President Clinton's 
foreign policy.
  I am not talking about Bosnia, Haiti, North Korea, or China, I am 
speaking about Rwanda.
  This time the United States failed to act to avert a genocide of our 
time. This administration not only ignored the wholesale slaughter in 
Rwanda, it delayed action on creating an international force and 
allowed the killing to continue.
  Instead of leadership to stop the massacre we provided delay. Instead 
of demanding United Nations action--we offered an arms embargo after 
hundreds of thousands had been hacked to death by machetes, knives and 
spears.
  When we say never again to a holocaust--we once again speak as 
hypocrites.
  As we watch the rotting human corpses on our color TV screens we see 
before our eyes another failure in foreign policy and a sad chapter in 
the history of mankind.
  Unfortunately whatever we do now is too little too late.

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