[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 190 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13808]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CONGRESS MUST VOTE ON SENDING TROOPS TO BOSNIA

  (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, when our Founders drafted the 
Constitution, the hottest debate centered around the power to declare 
war. Legislative history, legislative debate, legislative intent is 
absolutely clear. The Founders painstakingly articulated what they felt 
ensured, that in America no one person, no one person could place 
America at war or place Americans in harm's way.
  Now after all of the political rhetoric, after all of the opinions by 
the military experts, after all of the analysis, after all of the 
newspaper writings and all the speeches, the fact remains that one 
person, one man, has decided to place troops in harm's way.
  I believe that the Congress of the United States, who has abdicated 
the power in America where the people govern and turned it over to the 
White House, must vote on this issue. In America, no one man is deigned 
by the Constitution to have that power to place troops in harm's way. I 
think it is time to literally take our Government back.

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