[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1765]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    NATIONAL SECURITY REVITALIZATION ACT ENDANGERS NATIONAL SECURITY

  (Mr. GEJDENSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, what we will take up today is a bill that 
will cripple America and endanger American military personnel as they 
have never been endangered before. The bill should be retitled. It 
should be called the Saddam Hussein Full-Protection Act, because if 
this piece of legislation that we address today was in place, George 
Bush could not have pulled the world community together to stop Saddam 
Hussein's aggression.
  But worse than that, in the future it will make every conflict an 
American conflict. It will make every casualty an American casualty. It 
will mean every dollar of every conflict will be an American taxpayer 
dollar.
  In the Persian Gulf, 90 percent of the money that that war cost was 
paid for by other participants, not American taxpayers. It was a world 
responsibility.
  What this legislation will do will cripple the Presidency, leaving 
him either with the choice of unilateral American action or no action 
at all.
  Defeat this legislation. It endangers our national security.
  

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