[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 13, 1994]
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       NATIONWIDE CONCERN ABOUT HAITI POINTS UP NEED FOR HEARINGS

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute, and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, there is no question that the subject of the 
invasion of Haiti is dominating the media, it is dominating 
conversation in town and around the beltway, and it is dominating 
conversation across the country. We heard it in special orders last 
night, in morning business today, and in these 1-minutes now. It is 
clear that the discussion and the concern about an invasion of Haiti is 
there.
  Why does the Democratic leadership not get the picture and schedule a 
debate and let us have a vote and let us get about the business of 
deliberation? What extraordinary irony it is that when we are trying to 
set the example of democracy in the Western Hemisphere and for the 
whole globe, we are not following the trend and the pattern, of 
democracy in our own House, going through the democratic process of 
representative government, letting each person weigh in on this 
subject.
  We are talking here about something far more than sending a signal. 
As the distinguished chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee has 
said, we should have this debate because we are talking about utilizing 
the lives of the men and women in the armed services of America. They 
deserve this consideration, and they deserve our debate.

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