[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 13, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]


[Congressional Record: September 13, 1994]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

 
 CONGRESSIONAL ANALYSIS AND DEBATE IS WARRANTED BEFORE ACTION IS TAKEN 
                                IN HAITI

  (Ms. MOLINARI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. MOLINARI. Mr. Speaker, there is great concern for the President's 
Haitian policy at home and abroad. Nationally people do not understand 
it, and people feel it. Internationally former U.S. Ambassador to the 
United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick, writes, ``Canada turned down appeals 
to join the force, no European ally of the United States will 
participate in the military phase of the operation, no major government 
of this hemisphere will join in the invasion.''
  This should tell us something. It should tell us that at the very 
least congressional analysis and debate is warranted. If Bush, Powell, 
Schwarzkopf, and Cheney had to come before Congress for Operation 
Desert Storm, then clearly Clinton, and Christopher and Strobe Talbot 
must be subject to the same effort.
  Our allies have said, ``We don't have a stake in this.'' Our 
neighbors tell us, when we go home, they do not understand it, and we 
all believe that our military deserves much better than this. They 
deserve an explanation, and clearly, Mr. Speaker, there is bipartisan 
support for a congressional debate on this action, and we only hope, 
and for the military we pray, that the President hears what is going on 
in the well of Congress today.

                          ____________________