[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 92 (Wednesday, June 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5682]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               ON BOSNIA

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from New York, the 
chairman of the committee. As the Members of this House know, I, along 
with the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman] and others, offered an 
amendment last year that dealt with lifting the arms embargo to allow 
the Bosnians to defend themselves. This situation has gone on now for 
almost 3 years. The largest number of refugees since the Second World 
War have been created as a result of this confrontation and over 
100,000 deaths. Genocide is occurring.
  I regret that it appears, based upon the schedule that is going 
forward now, that I will be precluded from offering this amendment, 
which I believe is critically timely today and will be critically 
timely tomorrow.
  I would hope that we could configure the schedule tomorrow so that I 
would have a half an hour to offer this amendment at the end of the 
other amendments so that this House can address this issue. It is 
critical. It is on the front page of every newspaper in Europe and the 
United States. It is in the councils of the armed forces of every NATO 
nation. And it seems to me it is timely now for this Congress to speak.


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