[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 72 (Friday, June 10, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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       NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZA- TION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1995

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                               speech of

                           HON. FRANK R. WOLF

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, June 9, 1994

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the State of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 4301) to 
     authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for military 
     activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe 
     military personnel strengths for fiscal year 1995, and for 
     other purposes:

  Mr. WOLF. Madam Chairman, first, this is not to embarrass the 
President. The Bush administration made an equal mistake; let the 
record show that.
  Second, there are good people on both sides, good, decent people on 
both sides of the issue. No one is questioning anybody's integrity.
  Third, know that, when they split up, the Yugoslav army had all the 
weapons, all the Migs, all the tanks, all the guns, and the Moslems and 
the Croats had zero, nothing.
  Fourth, when we act today, on the crystal set radios tonight in 
Croatia and in Bosnia they will listen, and they will want to see what 
did the people's House, the U.S. Congress, the House of 
Representatives--what did they do? Did they do what the Senate did and 
go both ways, 50/49, 50/49? No, they want to know that we stood with 
the people.
  Fifth, the McCloskey, Gilman, Bonior, Hoyer amendment will, I 
believe, help bring the war to an end faster.
  Last, so many have talked about American troops. The people of Bosnia 
told me every time I have gone there they do not want American troops, 
and let the record show I would never ever vote for American troops in 
Bosnia, or in Croatia, or in Serbia.
  As the gentlewoman from New York [Ms. Molinari] said, how would you 
feel if you had a couple of kids and their lives were dependent on the 
United Nations?
  This has gone on for 3 years. Do we remember Vukovar, the fall of 
Vukovar in September? The United Nations has been there, and nothing 
has happened other than several hundred thousand have died.
  I say to the Members, ``Don't change.'' If you vote one way, stay 
with that position so that when the people of Bosnia and Croatia turn 
their crystal set radios on tonight and listen to Radio Free Europe, 
they will know that the People's House, the United States House of 
Representatives, the house where nobody was ever appointed and everyone 
was elected, has, as representing this Nation, voted to stand for 
freedom and to help the people of Croatia and Bosnia.
  Madam Chairman, I strongly support the McCloskey, Gilman, Bonior, 
Hoyer amendment and strongly oppose the Hamilton amendment.

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