[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 166 (Wednesday, October 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10750]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    LET US HAVE A VOTE ON YUGOSLAVIA

  (Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I spent the weekend visiting 
American troops in what was Yugoslavia and those troops who are on the 
ground today in Italy preparing to go into what was Yugoslavia. Mr. 
Speaker, we are doing a lot of important things in this body. I do not 
think anything we do is silly. But there is nothing more important than 
deciding the fate of those young American men and women who have given 
their word to defend our country.
  If this Congress does nothing, 25,000 young American men and women 
will be sent into a situation where they know many of them will die. 
This Congress will have shirked its responsibility.
  Mr. Speaker, we can bring that bill to the floor. We deserve a vote. 
Every Member of this body should decide whether or not those young men 
and women should be called upon, many of them to die, and a peace 
accord that will not bring peace to that part of the world. Tito could 
not do it in 50 years. The United States of America cannot do it in 1. 
We have to vote on this issue.

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