[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 66 (Tuesday, May 24, 1994)]
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              A CALL FOR BIPARTISANSHIP IN FOREIGN POLICY

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute, and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Madam Speaker, if we had referees in politics, the 
men in the black-and-white shirts would be running around blowing their 
whistles and talking about the piling-on offense. Everybody has been 
piling on the administration, saying they do not have a foreign policy.
  I remember the old days when foreign policy used to be bipartisan and 
both sides came together to give their best advice rather than shout at 
each other because they remembered that once you left the shores, it 
was this great Nation's whole stance that was really being looked at.
  So I would encourage those who are criticizing to come forward with 
some constructive criticism. I would say, Don't just say they don't 
know what they are doing, this is terrible, this is awful.
  What should we do? These are very difficult issues. What should we do 
in Haiti? What should we do in North Korea? What should we do in 
Bosnia? What should we do in--and fill in the blanks. Let us stop 
criticizing and let us go back to the bipartisan tradition that when we 
leave these shores, we all stand together as Americans shoulder to 
shoulder, and let us figure out what a good foreign policy in this New 
World that we live in really should be.

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