[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 132 (Tuesday, September 20, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: September 20, 1994]
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                  PAY ATTENTION TO OUR HEMISPHERE, TOO

  (Mr. HUGHES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUGHES. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of President Clinton and 
ask my colleagues to reduce the rhetoric, and let us start trying to 
work with the administration in what has become a very difficult 
quagmire we have been in for some time.
  I spoke in this well when we went into the Persian Gulf, supporting 
President Bush, because we can only have one President and one 
Secretary of State. It is the administration that carries out foreign 
policy, not Members of Congress. We cannot have 435 Secretaries of 
State.
  There are a lot of unanswered questions; I have the same concerns 
most of my colleagues have. But I think what we need to do at this 
point is work it through the process.
  There is no question that leadership in this world brings risks. It 
is not a riskless, risk-free world that we are in, as a matter of fact, 
and President Clinton and former President Carter's mission to Haiti 
pointed a direction that we did not see coming, but can lead us out of 
what has become a very difficult situation in our hemisphere.
  You know, ladies and gentlemen, one of the reasons why we have had so 
many problems in this hemisphere is because we have neglected it for 
too many years. We need to start paying more attention in our backyard.

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