[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 162 (Thursday, October 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10310]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            TROOPS TO BOSNIA WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL CONSENT?

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, once again, a President says he can send 
troops into a war zone without the consent of the Congress.
  What is the surprise here? Think about it. The Congress of the United 
States has time after time allowed the Presidents of the United States 
to usurp the constitutional power of the people. Turn the other cheek, 
and now the President is just simply going ahead and servicing all the 
cheeks he can in Congress.
  The bottom line is this: I do not know how you feel about Bosnia, 
Members, but I say not one American soldier shall be sent to Bosnia 
without a vote of the Congress. That is not the old-fashioned way. That 
is the constitutional way.
  If we continue to let Presidents take the Constitution and mold it 
like clay in their hands, we are gong to find ourselves in one hell of 
a bloody war.

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