[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 178 (Friday, November 10, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12089]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    WHAT IS THE OBJECTIVE IN BOSNIA?

  (Mr. METCALF asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. METCALF. Mr. Speaker, in the next few days this House will make a 
momentous decision: Shall the United States commit ground troops to 
Bosnia? The President has the constitutional power to commit troops, 
but Congress has the constitutional duty to fund that commitment or to 
refuse to fund that commitment. Before we make that decision, the 
President has an obligation to tell the Congress what is the objective, 
what vital United States interests are threatened.

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  What will those troops do to protect any vital United States interest 
if they are threatened there? Just as one Member of this Congress, I 
for one will not vote any money to send ground troops to Bosnia until 
those questions are satisfactorily answered.

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