[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 139 (Friday, September 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H8714-H8720]
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                       REPORT OF FACTFINDING TRIP

  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, we have had a fast 3 days. Started late on 
Wednesday, finishing early today. Pressure is building up here for a 
major budgetary struggle between the two major, only major parties in 
the world's only superpower, on all of these budgetary issues.
  We have come back from a long, what we sometimes euphemistically call 
a district work period. We are supposed to cram in a vacation and work 
hard. For some of us, it is hard work.
  I took one of the more difficult and fast-moving factfinding trips of 
my career, now that I am one of only two double chairmen out of all 435 
Members of this Chamber. I chair a Subcommittee on Intelligence, the 
Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, and I chair the 
Subcommittee on Military Personnel, which becomes the most important of 
all 5 military subcommittees under the Committee on National Security, 
what used to be called Armed Services, and is still called Armed 
Services in the House of Lords or the other Chamber, the Senate.
  On this trip, in discussing the issues with new young enlisted men, 
senior sergeants, petty officers, and the officer corps at all levels, 
up to and including four-star admirals, at Naples, at the major air 
base that is in command of all the bombing missions going on as we 
speak over poor torn ripped Bosnia-Herzegovina. And at Brendezy, down 
at the coast at the very heel of the Italian peninsula.
  That is where we have our Navy Seals, where we have what was a major 
listening post base. In all the world, there are only five listening to 
everything, San Vito Air Station, using the international airport at 
Brendezy where we keep our AC-130 Hercules special mission Spectre gun 
ships.
  I met with all the crews there. It is still classified whether or not 
they are going in at night over Bosnia. These were the aircraft that if 
we had them in Somalia over Mogadishu, we would have saved a dozen or 
more lives of our best trained Army special forces and Delta Force, 
Rangers and 160th Aviation Regiment, special armed squadrons.
  Then I traveled with Congressman Greg Laughlin, the highest ranking 
active reservist in the House or the Senate, of Galveston, TX, and we 
went to Slovenia. A fascinating, brand-new country in the world. It 
never had nation status, let alone a seat in the United Nations since 
the dissolution of the Communist country of the former Yugoslavia.
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  Then we went down to Croatia, met with Secretary General Boutros 
Boutros-Ghali's special representative to all of the problems in former 
Yugoslavia, Mr., that is his formal title, Mr. Sasushi Akashi, met with 
him at the U.N. headquarters, the blue helmet home plate in Zagreb, 
then went down along the Dalmatian coast, drove slowly through all of 
the destruction wreaked upon one of the world's most beautiful 
coastlines, looks for all the world like the California coastline 
between Santa Barbara and Monterey--just torn apart. The international 
airport in Zadar utterly destroyed except for the runways, all of the 
international terminal buildings, hollow shells of aluminum, like a 
nuclear explosion went off, the tower, all the windows shot out with 
AK-47's by the retreating Bosnian soldiers. They almost cut Croatia in 
half at that point, Zadar.
  Then we went down to Macedonia, met with all of our American tripwire 
forces out in the front outposts along the border, flew on white 
helicopters, UH-60 Blackhawks that, of course, called themselves the 
Whitehawks, with the United Nations stenciled on the sides, went out to 
these American outposts, studied this poor city of Skopje, which had 
been destroyed by an earthquake in 1963. It has never really made it 
back to a stable, functioning city, still great pockets of poverty from 
that horrible earthquake in 1963.
  Then we flew over to Albania, one of the most godforsaken but still 
physically beautiful countries in the world, and met with the president 
there, Sali Berisha, Mr. Berisha; he is a European renowned heart 
surgeon. His wife is a renowned doctor of pediatrics, a child doctor. 
What a lucky country to go from the depths of communism with a 
paranoidal maniac, Enver Hoxna, one of the last psychotic, paranoid 
Communist dictators in the world, who literally took this beautiful 
country of Albania, a brand new country created after World War I, not 
a traditional nation on the face of the Earth, and just drove it into 
the ground, more than a half-century of locked-up paranoia and total 
Communist psychotic oppression, and now they have a wonderful president 
who said to me and to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Laughlin], although 
he wants to be in the United Nations and would like to be accepted into 
NATO, he does not care what happens in the world if he just has the 
friendship of the United States, just one on one, unilateral 
friendship, and he thinks Albania will make it into the 21st century.
  That is the identical message we got north of there in another one of 
the eight parts of Yugoslavia that have spun off in Solvenia, same 
message: ``U.S. friendship is what we want.''
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and is now written about in all newspapers, the Predator, unmanned 
aerial vehicle [UAV] program. The pilots at that base, both Albanian 
and our U.S. Forces there, took us in a cave that the Chinese carved 
out of a mountain, a cave as long as several football fields, and there 
I looked at 24 or 25 MiG aircraft from the vintage of when I flew 
almost 40 years ago. There were MiG-19, ``Farmer'' was our NATO 
codeword, jets that they still fly, that were Russia's response to my 
F-100 Supersabre, and older jets from Korea, MiG Alley, early 1950's, 
MiG-15's and MiG-17's, the kind of airplane my colleague, the gentleman 
from California [Mr. Cunningham], shot down in North Vietnam. At least 
of his five victories, three are MiG-17's, all of this in this giant 
tunnel. And the landscape of the country is scarred, marred
 with 700,000 to 1 million concrete bunkers, pillboxes, machine gun 
posts, some of them as big as the entire rostrum of this House, others 
as big as from here to the other lectern, a million of them, maybe, 
making the whole landscape look ugly, and there is no money to remove 
them or drag them out to the sea and make a breakwater for a small boat 
harbor on this beautiful Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic.

  On that trip, at every stop I would take off my chairman's hat from 
intelligence and put on my chairman's hat from military personnel and 
ask our men and women at all levels of command what it will take to 
keep them in the military, to keep that expensive training that they 
were given to melt down the evil empire of the Soviet Union and stand 
guard over freedom and be part of the world's only superpower, and 
everywhere they talked about family, and quality of life; they spoke of 
what it would take them to earn a proper living with groceries, their 
compensation.
  So, all around that hot area of the world, I saw again that America 
is so lucky, as Ronald Reagan used to quote James Michener's great 
fictitious, but more fact than fiction, novel from the Korean war, 
``The Bridges of Toko-Ri,'' ``Where do we get such men,'' and now we 
can say women, ``Where do we get such men and women?'' How are we so 
lucky as to have them serve us?
  The sad thing about this break, Mr. Speaker, is that we went through 
some of the greatest anniversaries with the House adjourned. The 50th 
anniversary of the end of the greatest crusade for freedom against 
tyranny in all of recorded history during our break, the 50th 
anniversary endings. We had adjourned by the time Sunday came up for 
the 50th anniversary of the bombing at Hiroshima; 3 days later 
Nagasaki, August 9.
  On August 15 in the Pacific, on the other side of the dateline, 
August 14 here, the end of shooting in the Second World War; not really 
so; Japanese imperial warload staff beheaded prisoners, shot them, 
killed all the prisoners at Unit 371 in Pingfan, outside of Mukden, 
Manchuria. They called these godforsaken human beings ``logs,'' to 
depersonalize them. They had shot them, amputated all four of their 
limbs, one at a time, let them recover from each amputation, training 
over a thousand doctors to go out to all the tentacles of the imperial 
octopus that was so abusing the whole eastern perimeter, western 
perimeter of the Pacific around Asia. They had boiled them to death to 
see what it was like. They had frozen them to death. They had tied them 
to trees and hit them with bombs and shrapnel and grenades. They had 
put flamethrowers on them. They had infected them with anthrax, all 
forms of biological warfare, and none of these people that I know of 
were brought to justice.
  That is why everybody is so grateful to the current Prime Minister of 
Japan, that he offered an apology that we cannot get out of their 
congress, their ``diet,'' but there were men killed after August 15 
over there, and August 14 here. Many prisoners died.
  My friend, Jack Singlaub, was parachuted in with a small OSS team to 
the Chinese island of Hainan, under Japanese warload control. Notice I 
say ``warlord,'' to distinguish ourselves from the free democracy of 
Japan today, and it was mostly, it was all Australian and New Zealand 
prisoners, no Americans there. He loaded them on trains from this 
prison camp on the western side of Hainan island and took them over to 
the biggest port on the eastern side, and five or six Australian and 
New Zealand prisoners died on that train, but at least they died as 
free men. That was a very rough 2-week period. All of the prisoners 
were
 under death orders. If the United States invasion forces of Operation 
Olympic had set foot on the Japanese home islands, all prisoners were 
to be executed. Many were beheaded and beaten to death in the streets 
of Japanese cities if they were unfortunate enough to bail out over 
their target. Many of them miraculously survived.

  War crimes trials in Japan, but far less than those that were brought 
to the bar of justice, Hitler's war criminals.
  So we passed through all of those anniversaries without a word on 
this House floor, because we were out. Then came V-J Day. I decided I 
would spend V-J Day at our airbases encircling tortured Bosnia rather 
than be in Hawaii, where I planned to be and was invited to go with a 
World War II veteran, a young-looking gentleman from Arizona, Mr. 
Stump. I wanted to be on that trip, but I was so offended by the photo 
opportunities of the White House at the Normandy beaches to the 
exclusion of some of our heroes when they should have been the focus, 
that I did not want to subject myself to that, and I would have been 
pained to hear Mr. Clinton call the U.S.S. Missouri, the battleship 
upon which the Japanese surrender terms were unconditionally signed on 
September 2, 1945, I would have been pained to hear Mr. Clinton call it 
a carrier, an aircraft carrier. I would have been pained to hear him 
refer to the front of the ship, the bow, as the bow, as in a bow in 
your hair, and I guess he would call the stern the back side of the 
ship. If that had been Vice President Dan Quayle making verbal mistakes 
like that, you would all know about it. It would be headlines. But 
people are probably listening to C-SPAN today, 1,300,000 who think I am 
making that up. No, Mr. Clinton actually said those things, aircraft 
carrier Missouri, bow of it, as in bow and arrow, the bow of the ship. 
He got away with it. I preferred to be out with the troops in the field 
rather than at those wonderful closing ceremonies.
  But now a word here on the floor, Mr. Speaker. Here is what has been 
painful to me over the last 4 years: Except for the gentleman from 
Mississippi [Mr. Montgomery], two-star general, retired in the Army, of 
the Montgomery GI bill fame, and the aforementioned gentleman from 
Arizona [Mr. Stump], Navy retiree, except for one 1-hour special order 
that they did on Iwo Jima, there has not been a single memorial on the 
floor of the U.S. House of Representatives or the United States Senate 
for any single 50-year anniversary of anything that happened all during 
World War II, not Pearl Harbor, not the fall of Bataan, or the Bataan 
death march, not Corredigor, not the comeback at Guadalcanal, not the 
landings in Tarawa, not the Dieppe raid along the coast of Hitler's 
fortress Europe, not Al Alamein, not the battles at Tobruk, not the 
Kasserine Pass, not the landings at Sicily in July 9, 1943; we have 
heard here in July 1993, not Salerno, not Anzio, not Operation Overlord 
on D-Day, not Operation Dragon down on the southern coast of France, 
nothing about Okinawa, which came after Iwo Jima or the Gilbert Islands 
or Marshall Islands or the Battle of the Coral Sea or the Battle of 
Midway or the Battle of the Solomon Islands or the Santa Cruz Islands, 
nothing for 4 years in the Senate or the House floor pausing for a 
series of 1-minute speeches or 1-minute special orders. I am not saying 
this to pat myself on the back; except for about 10 of my 1-hour 
special orders, nothing, nothing on this House floor.
  I remember an Oklahoma Congressman shut this place down. I remember 
it because he lost his primary a few months later. I wondered if there 
was a connection. I think his name was Congressman Risenhoover. He shut 
this place down. We filled it with potted palms, and on Flag Day, June 
14 in some late year in the late 1970's, I forget the year, we had the 
great western singers, June Carter and Johnny Cash, standing up there. 
We sang patriotic hymns, and we did Flag Day, and there was nothing 
special. It was not the 50th anniversary of Flag Day, or silver 
anniversary. It was just Flag Day, any June 14. The whole place shut 
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potted plants all over at every entrance.
  I have never seen the like of it, potted plants all around the front 
here. We do not do that for a State of the Union with the Commander in 
Chief standing up there. We did not do that for Douglas MacArthur or 
Winston Churchill the two times he stood up there.
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  I thought, ``Wow, we are going to do this, I guess, all during World 
War II. Am I lucky to be here.''
  And, when George Bush got elected, because I went with President Bush 
to Pearl Harbor's 50th anniversary, and we stood there on that memorial 
across the midships of the U.S.S. Arizona, still a ship of the line, 
with the flag run up at reveille every morning. I thought, ``This is 
going to be great, go through all these 50-year anniversaries with a 58 
combat mission Navy attack carrier pilot in the White House.''
  And instead we ended up with someone who had avoided the draft three 
times, has insulted the military over, and over, and over with photo 
opportunities, using them to try to up his ratings, and thank God it 
fails every time, and here we are, past September 2, 1995, 50 years 
gone by. No memorials.
  Today I have an editorial, a counter-editorial, in the USA Today. 
They always put in the left-right views.
  They called my office at 2 o'clock yesterday, said, ``Give us 
something quick. Senator Warner is not responding fast enough, the No. 
2 man on Armed Services Committee in the other body.'' They said, 
``Give us something on why the military should be built up.''
  We pumped out something quickly. I sent a corrected copy on a fax to 
USA Today at 3:30, and I said, ``Well, this will be in next week,'' and 
it is in this morning, a turnaround of about 15 hours before it hit the 
streets, and I would like to read it, Mr. Speaker.
  It says, ``Military Needs Buildup.'' It is what every one of these 
young, not-so-young, people all around the Mediterranean told me.
  ``Robert K. Dornan, opposing view: The military budget has been hit 
year after year. Security demands that we spend more.''
  Now I have not read the USA Today house editorial that says we must 
gut defense even more, but here is my response on September 8:
  ``After 11 straight years of defense spending cuts, Republicans are 
providing the national security leadership not found in the current 
administration.
  ``Indeed, President Clinton's draconian defense budget would produce 
another Carter-era ``hollow force'' reportedly underfunded by as much 
as $150 billion. Congress, therefore, is not squandering money when it 
votes to increase the Pentagon's budget by $7 billion more than 
requested. Instead, it is restoring national security funding to 
necessary levels.
  ``How soon we forget what is required to quickly and decisively win 
on the modern battlefield.
  ``Today's military modernization is tomorrow's combat readiness. 
Systems such as the F-117 `Nighthawk' stealth fighter and the Patriot 
missile were not developed overnight. They were the culmination of 
years of research and development. These revolutionary systems 
drastically reduced our casualties'' killed in acting and wounded in 
action) ``in Desert Storm.'' more than any other conflict in history 
given the level of lethality, and violence, and speed, and 
maneuverability.
  ``Today we can improve upon these systems with new weapons that will 
further reduce the risk to American troops.
  ``The B-2 `Spirit' Stealth bomber,'' I helped to name that, so of 
course I want to get the name in, ``carries eight times the payload of 
the F-117, with greater range and crew survivability.''
  Keep in mind, listening audience, Mr. Speaker, and my colleagues who 
may be packing up their bags in their offices to head back to their 
districts, that the B-2 survived in this Chamber by 3 votes, 213 to 
210, to defeat an amendment, mostly by people who have never served in 
the military, to kill and shut down the world's only bomber production 
line, the B-2 ``Spirit.''
  ``New missile defense programs, such as the upgraded Navy Aegis (A-e-
g-i-s) system, provide greater range, accuracy, and coverage than 
Patriot missiles.''
  We call that upper-tier Navy defense. Put two ships off Israel, two 
ships off Korea, just two ships, and the footprint from both those 
ships can keep Israel free from being struck with a nuclear weapon or, 
as we now find out from the defecting son-in-law of dictator, mad-dog 
killer Saddam Hussein; we now find out that, yes, they were driving to 
completion of a nuclear weapon and were playing around with the most 
deadly biological, and chemical, and nerve gas weapons since World War 
II and would have used them, and may have used them; the jury is out on 
that. So we need this Navy upper-tier Aegis system antimissile defense.
  ``Does the Pentagon need these expensive new programs? Ask the Air 
Force pilots who will not have to attack highly defended enemy targets 
in vulnerable, unstealthy aircraft because they will have the B-2. Ask 
the Marines and Army troops who will not have to worry about Scud 
ballistic missile attacks because of the Navy's new ballistic missile 
defense.''
  All of this, of course, predicated upon the conference between the 
House and the Senate, the conference process that we are entering, that 
we entered this afternoon. My R&D Subcommittee is meeting as I speak. I 
decided that letting America know what we are doing was more important 
than participating in that meeting because I am not the chairman of 
that subcommittee; the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Weldon] is.
  My close in today's USA Today:
  ``These and other Republican initiatives in areas such as personnel 
and training will not just maintain, but will enhance, the combat 
capability that has so quickly deteriorated under Clinton's leadership.
  ``Those of us who visit,'' as I did in the Balkans over this break 
our troops, ``and listen to our front-line troops are giving them what 
they need,'' what they deserve, ``including equipment that will 
drastically reduce loss of'' precious, ``life.''
  ``The Reagan revolution of the 1980's laid the foundation for'' the 
victory in, ``Desert Storm. The Republican revolution'' that started on 
November 8, ``of 1994 is laying the foundation for any future 
victories, if that is our fate, and the survival of U.S. combat troops 
well into the 21st century.''
  Now, Mr. Speaker, I had intended to spend the better part of this 
hour special order on defense on some of the votes that we won this 
week. We won them all on the conservative side with the help of many 
conservative members of the former majority party, the oldest political 
party in America, the Democrats, but last night I kept a promise that I 
made to a Navy Seal at Brandezy, Italy. I do not want to identify him 
by rank, but let us put it this way. All the Seal's in the 
Mediterranean depend on this fine young officer and Annapolis graduate 
from decades ago.
  He said to me, ``Congressman Dornan, I appreciate you being in the 
Presidential race, although it appears you don't have much chance of 
victory, as I appreciate Mr. Keyes, Alan Keyes, of Maryland, because 
you discuss the moral issues which I believe are the critical issues of 
our time.''
  Now keep in mind this is a senior naval officer trained to the peak 
of physical and mental performance for his country. He said, 
``Congressman, I believe as a naval officer that the military culture 
is the last stable part of American life from which we can begin the 
rebuilding of our Nation's moral fiber, from which we can begin to 
defend the moral and cultural ethos
 that is collapsing around us.''

  Now I would like to think there is a pocket of us on both sides of 
the aisle in the House and the Senate that also believe that we are in 
an advanced state of moral decline in our country.
  He said to me, this naval officer, ``Did you see the cover story of 
Newsweek in July on bissexuality?''
  I said, ``No, captain, I did not.''
  He said, ``Well, I canceled my subscription with a long letter to the 
New York publisher and senior editors saying that this was the most 
vile and corrupt article I've ever seen in my life.''
  And I said, ``Well, every week in my office I get 10 magazines and 
about 10 newspapers,'' and I said, ``I try to read as much as any human 
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House or Senate. With all due immodesty, I've never seen anybody that 
reads more.''
  And I said, ``I did not see this particular Newsweek. I can go weeks 
without even catching a cover story in Time, or Newsweek, or U.S. News 
and World Report, or all the other magazines that we get. Then there is 
all the great conservative publications, the moderate ones like New 
Republic I try to stay up with, and Crisis, and First Things, and 
cutting edge of Catholic and Protestant, conservative, magazines, and 
of course Bill Buckley, my old pal, with National Review--awful lot to 
read. We have tremendous responsibility here to stay informed on what 
our Speaker Gingrich calls the ``information highway'' to be an alert, 
informed man or woman in this place. It is an overwhelming job if 
you're trying to inform yourself of all aspects of the popular culture 
and try to cover the economic front, the foreign affairs front, the 
human rights front, the defense front, all the social issues at home, 
gang warfare, the O.J. Simpson trial, not as a gawking ``Lookie Lou,'' 
but as someone aware that this trial, as the Menendez trial has done, 
can put our whole jury system in jeopardy.''
  And I promised this Navy SEAL that I would get the Newsweek article 
out of my huge piles of reading material in my office and take a look 
at it. I have only been home since the first of September. I got it out 
last night and read it. Here it is, Mr. Speaker. It is the Newsweek 
issue of July 17, so it hit the newsstands on Monday, July 10. I read 
it last night, and I agree with this naval officer, assigned at a 
forward base in Italy, a kind of a man who will go in and put his life 
on the line if another Captain Scott O'Grady gets shot down along the 
coast. The Navy SEAL's will have the job to go in and rescue them under 
fire, and I agree with this naval officer. This is the most corrupt 
article, let alone a cover story, that I have ever read in an American 
magazine in my life--Newsweek.
  The Washington bureau chief, and we are having our problems right now 
over another issue that personally involves my honor, and I will do a 
1-hour special order or a personal privilege in the middle of the day--
no, I would not do that in September, budget month--to defend my honor 
from an attack by a reporter who has only been--who was not even hired 
when this issue came out, who attacked my honor and said I crashed four 
aircraft in the Air Force. I have not crashed one. Ejected twice from 
totally out-of-control aircraft, but he doubled that to four and said I 
crashed them and said I was a black ace, one kind of black ace. The 
only black aces I know were an F-14 squadron called the ``Black Aces'' 
in the unheralded until the HBO special in the last few weeks, the 99th 
fighter squadron, and then the 332nd Fighter Group, the Tuskegee 
airmen, our young fighter pilots in the Italian theatre of African-
American
 heritage who are finally getting their recognition 52 years after they 
entered combat. That is the only ``Black Aces'' I know about.

  But I am having my problems with Evan Thomas, who I think is one of 
the better talking heads. He will be on television tomorrow, on a 
program called ``Inside U.S.A.,'' a handsome young man, and we are 
having out problems on this, but I have not talked to him about this 
issue, and I will. I am going to fly up to New York. I am going to go 
see Donald and Katharine Graham. She is chairman emeritus and has 
discussed this issue.
  I almost wonder if I can read this in the Chamber, but listen to 
this. I wish you folks were not leaving up there because--well, get the 
Congressional Record tomorrow and read this.
  Here is the article on bisexuality. It is under ``Lifestyle,'' of 
course.
  ``Bisexuality is the wild card of our erotic life. Now it is coming 
out in the open, in pop culture, in cyberspace, and on campus. But can 
you really have it both ways?'' They asked rhetorically, question mark, 
by John Leland. The answer is Newsweek thinks you can because in this 
article, one of America's great magazines--when I was a little kid 
coming out of St. Patrick's, I used to look at their beautiful 
headquarters building right there on Fifth Avenue across from Tiffany 
somewhere. Newsweek, which is owned by the Washington Post, one of 
America's three major newspapers, all of them liberal: L.A. Times, New 
York Times, Washington Post. They own this, so it is under Katharine 
and Donald Graham.
  Here is what Newsweek says about this issue. Brace yourself for 
culture shock if you are still shockable.
  They show here Theresa, and Ronelle, all these couples, Stephen and 
Linda. Of course, she's 47 and he's 30. They all have multiple 
partners, they all switch-hit, they are all AC/DC, they are dual-
gaited. I remember all the cute words in New York, and, after all, I 
grew up in Manhattan and then west to Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, so I 
know all the flippant dialog.
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  Here is a woman, 48, with a young Hispanic guy, it looks like he is 
about 17, 18, 19; he is in his early 20's. Freud said we are all 
bisexual. He thought that exclusive heterosexuality was a problem. In 
the copy it says that he thought homosexuality was a problem, and he 
never got around to that, because he died and met God before he had a 
chance to get into that.
  But the article goes on, and by its commentary, approving of this 
fifth gender. Bella Abzug stands up in Beijing, China, in the middle of 
the world's most oppressive human rights, communistic dictatorship and 
mentions homophobia and gets a standing ovation from all of the 
assembled feminists of the world. if Ms. Hillary was in the room, she 
would have given her a standing ovation.
  So here in the picture of this blue-eyed, red-headed guy, Tim, 24, 
with Ellen, 30 years of age. She has done it all, it is always older 
women and younger guys in these bisexual things. Listen to this. ``The 
bisexual blip of the 1970's was an offshoot of the sexual revolution.''
  Of course, Newsweek's position is the sexual revolution was just 
grand. Tell that to 200,000 people dead of AIDS, another million 
infected in this country, and 10 to 20 million affected all around the 
world. Make love, casual sex like alley cats, not war. So they refer to 
the sexual revolution in an approving way.
  ``The bisexual blip was an offshoot of that revolution. It was 
straight with a twist. By contrast, the current bisexual movement rises 
from the gay and feminists movements.'' Notice it did not say lesbian 
wing of the feminist movement, just the feminist movement. ``For a 
generation that came of age during the gay rights movement, same-sex 
relationships or experiments no longer carry the stigma they once 
did.'' Stigma. What would that mean? Would that mean sin? Right and 
wrong, evil, banal sin, mortal sin?
  Newsweek magazine, with this article, Mr. Speaker, and anybody 
listening, make no mistake about it, Newsweek magazine, with this July 
17 cover story, is a direct frontal attack on everything that I was 
ever taught by my parents, by every teacher I had in grade school, high 
school, and college. It is a direct frontal assault on Mother Theresa, 
on Pope John Paul II, on Billy Graham, or every Protestant, Catholic, 
and Jewish theologian in this Nation. It is a frontal assault on Moses, 
right before my eyes, on the Jewish rabbi and great lawgiver Mimones 
over here; it is a frontal assault on the justice code of almost all of 
the 23 men whose medallions you see up in this Chamber: The Pope, Pope 
Innocent, Pope Gregory, St. Louis, Pope Alphonse. It is an assault upon 
every moral code in this country, but it says, there is no more stigma 
to promiscuity and groping around like alley cats, and any drug-
infested party you can go to, and it gets worse. No longer a stigma.
  Get this next line. I hope you are watching, Evan Thomas. If my 
office is listening, Mr. Speaker, I hope they call Newsweek because he 
is in his office this afternoon, and ask Evan Thomas to please turn on 
the television and listen to this. This is not in quotes, this is 
Newsweek writing, this is John Leland writing, with the help, and I am 
going to mention him right now, of Steve Rhodes, contributing in 
Chicago, Peter Katel in Miami, Claudia Kalb and Marc Peyser in New 
York, Nadine Joseph in San Francisco, and Martha Brant in Washington, 
in the Washington office and bureau reports.
  Get this next line, after there is no stigma: ``More and more of us--
at work * * *'' Is this Newsweek
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in our entertainments--``move comfortably between gay and straight 
worlds.''

  ``Most of us in our work move comfortably between gay and straight 
worlds and in our schools?'' Then they go to a quote: ``Those of us who 
are younger,'' says Rebecca Kaplan, 24, a psychology major at 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology--what are your SAT scores to get 
into MIT? She says, ``those of us who are younger owe a great deal to 
gays, lesbians and bisexuals who came before us.''
  Who came before us? That is a line for George Washington in his 
inaugural speech, April 30, 1789. We owe this to Benjamin Franklin and 
to George Mason up here, we owe it to them, Thomas Payne and those who 
came before us, those who died at Lexington and Concord, those who 
suffered during the six and a half years of the Revolutionary War. Any 
African-American can say, we owe this to those who died in the 
conflict, to the terrorist John Brown and his sons, we owe it to 
everybody who came before us, our freedom.
  What was the greatest scene in the wonderful movie, ``Glory,'' when 
Morgan Freeman says to the young rebel Denzel Washington, he says, 
white boys have anted up and died for our freedom; now it is our time 
to ante up, and he rallies the 4th regiment to go against Fort Wagner, 
and they gave their lives in the fight for freedom to keep this 
country. As it says here, tolerance, liberty and union on the other 
side, those who went before us.
  ``The bisexuals, lesbians who went before us, we owe it to them.'' 
She is going to make a great psychologist. Still in school at age 24. 
She says, ``because of them,'' Rebecca continues, ``I was able to come 
out as a bisexual and not hate myself.'' Here is this word feminism 
again, not the lesbian branch of feminism. Feminism has also made 
romantic attachments between two women--either provisional or lasting--
more acceptable, even privileged.
  Do you know that I had to be a Congressman approaching my sixties 
before a young graduate of Holyoke told me that the majority of women 
at that college would say they were lesbians? That she had to form on 
campus a heterosexual club to defend themselves. They were not just 
defending virginity, they were defending normal heterosexuality. And 
she said, of course, most of the women are 4-year lesbians, or more 
accurately a 3-year, 9-month lesbian. Peer pressure, sexual lesbian 
experimentation, and then as, some radical lesbians have said, dripping 
bile from their lips, they have said, and then the sisters betray us, 
not in this order necessarily, and go out and get themselves a dog, a 
station wagon, children and a husband.
  Is that what Newsweek means by provisional lesbians? Just while they 
were in college, at a school of higher learning, one of the privileged 
of the world, to get advanced education beyond high school?
  Then it says, after privileged, ``as president of the National 
Organization for Women, Patricia Ireland sets a quiet example.'' She is 
a big mouth, so what does quiet mean? ``She has both a husband and a 
female companion.'' What kind of a wimp is her husband down there in 
Miami that he lets her keep a lesbian roommate up there in Washington, 
DC. where she does the work of NOW, preparing to send Bella Abzug to 
rant on in Beijing, China about homophobia? Incredible. And there were 
some people at NOW that voted against the Nation's most famous lesbian 
becoming head of NOW.
  Now, this in Newsweek, and this is in quotes, ``Namely every college 
or university in the country
 and some high schools now have gay and lesbian student centers; sex 
with one's own gender, for anyone who is curious,'' that is you, Mr. 
Speaker, that is everybody in the gallery, that is these two staffers 
sitting here, that is our pages, that is me, ``for anyone who is 
curious, section with one's own gender is now a visible and protected 
part of campus culture.''

  And protected by Newsweek, ladies and gentlemen. Queer studies. I 
thought queer was a politically incorrect word. ``Queer studies and 
gender studies are now part of the national curriculum. A popular T-
shirt spotted recently in a Connecticut high school puts it this way: 
Do not assume I am straight.'' That is a high school kid.
  ``As one 17 year old bi says,'' we do not know if it is a boy or 
girl, 17 year old, someone over 18 rapes a 17-year-old young lady on a 
date, that is a statutory rape. This is a minor child that Newsweek is 
writing about. ``A 17-year-old minor bi says `It is not us versus them 
anymore. There is just more and more of us.' '' Tim Horing, but there 
is an umlaut--I did not know Newsweek's typewriters had umlauts over 
the 0--21, a sophomore--why is he a sophomore at 21? He should be a 
senior or junior--at City College in San Francisco, describes himself 
as ``typical of bisexual youth. We just refuse to label ourselves as 
any of the five food groups.'' That is male heterosexual, female 
heterosexual, male homosexual, female homosexual, and the bi's. ``We do 
not want to be any part of the five. We revel in the fuzziness, in the 
blurred images. Working class, Roman Catholic,'' and, oh, does the New 
York Times and the networks as CBS did in their CBS reports last night, 
do they love to attack Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor and the Roman 
Catholic Church, if they get a Catholic or practicing Baptist family or 
an orthodox Jewish family, oh, to get somebody from a traditional 
Jewish or Roman Catholic to switch over and talk about how they are a 
recovering Catholic or a recovering Jewish person, because of all that 
terrible confirmation and Holy Communion and bar mitzvah and bat 
mitzvah, oh, they love to get one of this.
  And get this, Tom's father is a retired New York narcotics cop. A 
narco guy taking away another one of their flesh privileges, to get 
high and then grope out boy for all the warm flesh.
  ``Horing had his first sexual fantasies about the Bionic Woman, and 
then in his teens he admitted to himself in a series of difficult steps 
that he was also attracted to men. He came out to a few friends in 
school, and at his graduation when his name was called, Timothy Horing, 
six rows in the auditorium mischievously,'' no, not mischievously, 
``yelled out `The bisexual; Tim Horing, the bisexual.' A surprise to 
his parents.''
  No, a gut-ripping heart seizure for his New York retired narcotics 
cop and his Roman Catholic mother.
  ``For the most part, he has been in monogamous relationships.'' You 
like that, ``for the most part?'' ``Usually with men.''
  Oh, I see. I always said for my entire life that bisexuality was 
basically a cover story for homosexuality. That when they captured the 
adjective ``gay'' to say that they were happier than your average pair, 
more cheerful, more mirthful, that then, if they said they were 
bisexual, they could say ``Well, I date the whole base. I can date 
anybody on Capitol Hill. I am a switch-hitter. I am AC-DC, I am bi. I 
can go for anything. You are missing out on half the world.'' But we 
find out he basically dates men.
  As we go all the way through this, most of it is male homosexuality, 
not bisexuality. Though he is now dating two gay men and a bisexual 
woman. I see. He is spreading himself around. Two homosexual men and 
one half-homosexual woman. What would that give him in the rating of 
chess pieces? What would that make him, 87.75 homosexual?
  He says, young Tom, ``I never wanted a white picket fence, but I do 
want someone I can settle down with and raise my Benetton kids.'' 
Benetton. Is that the Benetton Colors out of Italy that put Ronald 
Reagan in major news magazines with cancer, sarcoma, AIDS sores all 
over his face? Is this Benetton that pushes homosexual money into every 
corner of America and everywhere else their clothing is marketed?
  I notice that the Justice Department today under Janet Reno is 
investigating Calvin Klein jeans to see if they used underaged children 
in their soft core pornography, latest wave of disgusting ads, and 
Klein, unless he gets taken to court, is laughing all the way to the 
bank again, because negative soft- or hard-core pornography sells in 
modern America.
  They just had an adult bookstore convention in the Sheraton Universal 
Hotel in Los Angeles, and I am reading in one of my Los Angeles Times 
clippings that the business, in spite of the January 17 earthquake 2 
years ago, has rebounded and doubled. You do not see porno theaters in 
your markets anymore, because it is in all the hotels for traveling 
businessmen to demean somebody else's sister, wife, somebody else's 
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love of a father, and it is in all the video stores, including 
Blockbuster. The ripping apart of these young gals from these 
transitional neighborhoods who never new the loving touch, the moral 
touch, of a father, to hug them and kiss them and guide them through 
school.
  They are out there as the young whores of our society being used by 
the porno industry. And no matter how many commit suicide like Karen 
Applegate from a beautiful little town in Wisconsin.--I have spoken to 
her mother. No matter how many kill themselves. Six playmates have 
killed themselves over the years. When I asked Hugh Hefner that once to 
his face, he turned red and did not want to discuss it and said it was 
a lie. I knew them each by name, starting with Marilyn Monroe, his 
first playmate.
                              {time}  1400

  But this guy says he wants to raise his Benetton kids in a swinging 
orgy household. His partner may be a man or woman, he says. I don't 
feel forced to choose. I don't have to make any tough choices.
  Then it shows this very pathetic human being with his baby. He has 
gone through every orgy situation available to the humankind. And when 
people ask him what his little baby is, man or woman, he says ask the 
baby. He has a little boy or girl and he says, ask the baby. Smart 
aleck. Pray for him. He is 42 and he has three or four people on the 
hook. It goes on and on as it gets worse.
  Softening tensions. Softening tensions. This is Newsweek. That is a 
paragraph title. For many bisexuals, it has not been easy. When I came 
out in '88, says Melissa Merry, 31, energetic Chicagoan who calls 
herself Mel: I was told by people from local lesbian support groups not 
to come out as a bisexual or I would be asked to leave.
  They did not want the fence straddling. Well, when I got to some of 
these paragraphs about high schools, the first thing that flashed in my 
mind, as an Irish-American, was William B. Yeats poem read when Hitler 
started World War II. And he died that year, Yeats. It is called ``The 
Second Coming,'' about the beast being born, the Antichrist and 
slouching off to Bethlehem to be born. Those are the last lines, but it 
begins turning and turning in the widening gyre, as in gyrations, 
falcons, circle. Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon 
no longer hears the falconer. Things fall apart. The center cannot 
hold. Everywhere the blood din tide is loosed. Everywhere the ceremony 
of innocence is drowned.
  The ceremony of innocence is drowned by Newsweek. The best lack all 
conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity. There is an 
intensity to this article and it is evil and it is the worst.
  When I saw in here they are claiming James Dean, the actor who died 
at age 24 after only three movies, when I see they are claiming Marlene 
Dietrich as a bisexual lesbian, and Cary Grant, my favorite actor as a 
young man because of everybody's favorite movie quote-unquote ``Gunga 
Din,'' when I saw that, I went to the end to see how many women 
participated in--what is the author's name again, with John Leland in 
this disgusting, vile piece--and while I was back at the tail end of 
the article reading all the violence--by the way, if this were in Time 
we would not know who contributed to this. I could not call any of 
these people and say have you lost your moral compass totally at this 
magazine? Does Donald Graham read this, this cover story of this 
corruption, this drowning of innocence? And as I was reading, I decided 
I would look before I finished the story at the last line.
  Now, let me tell you a story about myself personally. When I was a 
young man in Beverly Hills, just out of high school, and I heard these 
rumors, because my uncle is the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, Jack 
Haley, I grew up in that community. I knew who dodged the draft. I knew 
the heroes who went off to combat, like James Stewart and Tyrone Power. 
We know who all the ones that were rumored to be homosexuals. I knew 
about Rock Hudson 10 years before it came out in the press.
  I had a small bit part in a movie ``Gathering of Eagles,'' and he 
minced across the set and the director said cut. And Rock turned around 
and said was I mincing too much? And the director said, just do it 
again, Rock. I witnessed that, and everybody talks behind the scenes. 
Just as in fashion design, in ice skating, in supernumeraries, on 
Broadway stage, in ballet, and now in some parts of government there is 
a larger percentage than the 1 percent of homosexuals out there across 
America. And when I worked on the sets of Hollywood trying to feed my 
five children and dreaming about running for Congress someday, I had 
long philosophical discussions with a lot of young homosexual men in 
their 20's, and they would tell me about Rock and all the stars that 
they just were dying to get with some night; wanted them, and then to 
see them up there 50 feet high up on the silver screen and know that 
you had sexually been with them. What a trip.
  And how did I rationalize Cary Grant when I was in high school? I 
remember working out a rationale that when God gives you a lot of 
talent and you make a lot of money in your 20's or 30's--what did Robin 
Williams say after he came off cocaine and watched his friend John 
Belushi die? He said cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making 
too much money.
  It was the same way in Hollywood. Always has been. Or in any 
profession where money flows fast into the hands of the young. Look at 
all our rock stars. Look at Kurt Cobain blowing his brains out.
 Look at Jerry Garcia. Look at Marilyn Monroe. Look at Elvis. Look at 
Jimi Hendrix. Look at Jim Morrison. Look at Janis Joplin. Whether it is 
booze or heroin or drugs, and orgies for all of them.

  I watched Elvis Presley using his staff to pimp for him. I thought 
what a tragedy for this polite young man from Tupelo, MI. I am trying 
to sell him a script called the 101st American, about Vietnam, because 
he had served honorably in the Army, and I am watching his staff hit on 
young pretty extra girls for him. They rented a big mansion up in 
Beverly Hills below the head of the owner of the L.A. Rams, who is now 
dead, and you could hear the orgies going on all night long.
  He died naked, on drugs at 42 years of age, and now you can get a 
postage stamp and lick Elvis and stick him on your letter and say there 
went the most talented man in rock singing in our lifetime dead at 42. 
And in that suite of stamps you can get Marilyn Monroe. Do we forget 
how old she was in August of 1962 when she died? 36 years old. 36 years 
old! At my age, that is a kid. We are celebrating these two deaths with 
their most glamorous picture.
  Remember the debate in the Post Office department: Do we want the 
fat, older drug besotted Elvis or the younger Elvis in his prime? We 
picked the younger one. And he was a polite young man. What a tragedy!
  So I watched all these people corrupting themselves, and I watched 
others, like Jimmy Stewart and my Uncle Jack and others. I remember 
Danny Thomas telling me I have never told a dirty joke in my life, Bob. 
Do not ever forget that. My uncle told me, never stoop to dirty humor 
on the stage. It is too easy to get laughs. Today I watch all these 
comedians. It is a category with the medical word for male organ. That 
is all they do, are jokes on genitalia.
  It is sickening what is going on in Hollywood. But what was my 
rationale for Cary Grant? Here it was, I remember it vividly, I was in 
my teens. I said when you have too much money, and you can have any 
beautiful woman in the world, and you start going to wild Hollywood 
parties and drinking too much--we did not know about drugs much in 
those days--and you start drinking too much, and you are at an orgy, 
whatever moves, I guess. It is all a mortal sin. It is all promiscuity. 
It is all flesh. Flesh is flesh, so you experiment with everything.
  So I do not think Cary Grant was a homosexual or a bisexual. He just 
got carried away at those orgies. That was my rationale so I could like 
Sergeant McChesney of Gunga Din with McLaglen and with Sergeant 
Ballentine Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  Years later, in a debate running for the Senate seat that Pete Wilson 
eventually won, I am debating one of the candidates back in the pack, 
because I am still back in the pack in the Presidential race, he was a 
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Roman Catholic, he was a colonel in the Marine Reserve, and I pointed 
out to him in a radio debate in 1982 at a station in Pasadena, KRLA--
how is that for a memory--I said, you know something my State Senate 
friend, reaching out and grabbing any kind of flesh, whether 
heterosexual or homosexual, lust is lust. It is one of the seven deadly 
sins. It is all a mortal sin whether normal or abnormal.
  He went ballistic. Would not accept that. Then I found out he had a 
scandal brewing. He had two college students where he taught as a 
professor, a marine officer, who were pregnant with children out of 
wedlock. He bragged, quite properly, at least he was
 pro-life. I could not understand why he took such exception to saying 
that God is not going to judge a promiscuous homosexual any more 
harshly than he will judge a promiscuous heterosexual. It is all lust. 
It is all the ceremony of innocence being drowned as we do this to our 
children.

  So there it is, when I am a teenager rationalizing Cary Grant and 
arguing on a radio show in a California Senate race in 1982. Here is my 
point for telling those two little tangential tales. My eyes jump above 
all the bylines of these people, Steve and Peter and Claudia and Mark 
and Nadine and Martha, and here is the last line of this disgusting, 
vile, decadent piece from the Graham empire of the Washington Post 
Newsweek magazine and other small newspapers.
  It says in the last paragraph, in San Francisco recently Tim Horing--
remember him, Roman Catholic, parents retired New York narco cop 
father--he was telling his friends about how he changed his approach to 
picking up boys. How old was Horing? 21. Hey, Newsweek, did you slip 
here in your investigative reporting? Telling his friends how he had 
changed his approach to pick up boys? Is he a 21-year-old chicken hawk 
hitting on runaway young men on the street who also, in most cases, 
until recently, when peer pressure overwhelms even good attentive 
Jewish Christian mothers and fathers. In the old days, last year, last 
decade, it was young boys who never knew a father's masculine touch, a 
mother's hug, a mom or dad taking them to a baseball game or fishing. 
It was young men who ran away from inattentive alcoholic families that 
ended up on the street of once glamorous Hollywood Boulevard to be 
preyed upon, P-R-E-Y-E-D upon, to be taken off for porno films and 
turned into midnight cowboy male street whores all along Selma 
Boulevard behind beautiful Jesuit Blessed Sacrament Church in 
Hollywood.
  I drove down that street when I did Michael Reagan's show a month 
ago, and there they are, still huddling in the driveways with less 
business because now most of them are infected with AIDS. So Tim 
Horing--I have to check if he was 21. Yes, he is 21. He says the boys 
that I pick up now--he has changed his approach. ``I used to say are 
you queer? Then I switched to, do you like boys? Now his favorite line 
is, do you like me?''
  As he sees it, ``I have gone from the political to the historical 
attraction to the very personal. All that matters is if they like me.'' 
This is the new bisexual moment, Newsweek says. This is their close in 
a nutshell.
  And I close with this line, Mr. Speaker. ``Hard fought, hard thought, 
and distinctively individual. It is a thorny narrative, fraught with 
questions of identity and belonging. And in the end, it is really about 
the simple, mysterious pull between warm human bodies when the lights 
go out.''
  My teenage rationale for Cary Grant. We are in advanced moral decay, 
Mr. Speaker, and I am going to stay in the Presidential race as long as 
I can, because there is not anyone in the race like Congressman Robert 
K. Dornan at age 62.


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