[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 132 (Tuesday, September 20, 1994)]
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             LINGERING QUESTIONS ON CLINTON HAITIAN POLICY

  (Mr. de LUGO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. de LUGO. Mr. Speaker, yesterday morning I was watching television 
as our troops began going ashore in Haiti, and as a person from the 
Caribbean, an island person from that area, I said thank God to see our 
young soldiers, men and women, entering without firing a shot.
  A lot of people did a lot of things right this past Sunday, 
particularly our President.
  Regardless of which side of the aisle you sit on in this House, he is 
our President. It took a lot of courage to do what he did, and it is 
time to support our President.
  A lot of people did a lot of things right: Our President, our former 
President Jimmy Carter, the members of the Carter team that President 
Clinton sent to Haiti, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 
Gen. Colin Powell, whose parents are from Jamaica and whose sensitivity 
played a key role in resolving the matter, and Senator Nunn.
  It is time to stop carping. It is time to support our President and 
our troops.

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