[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 13, 1994]
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               CONGRESS SHOULD ACT BEFORE INVADING HAITI

  (Mr. WALKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, it is disturbing to have the news reports 
that an invasion of Haiti is imminent, particularly since most of 
Congress has not been consulted on this matter and most of Congress has 
in fact indicated in one way or another that they do not approve of the 
direction the administration has been going. This is an administration 
that went to the United Nations and asked their permission to move in 
Haiti. It is an administration that went to the OAS and asked their 
permission to move in Haiti, but has not yet come to the Congress of 
the United States that is going to have to supply the money and supply 
the moral backing for this action should it take place.
  It seems to me it is absolutely incumbent upon this administration to 
come to the House of Representatives and come to the U.S. Senate and 
ask us to act on this matter before the troops are moved. Not to do 
that, it seems to me, will have an action under way by our military 
that will lack the moral authority necessary for long-term, sustained 
military actions.
  We have made mistakes like that in the past. We ought to have learned 
from those mistakes. We ought not make that mistake again.

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