[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 197 (Tuesday, December 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14352]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             MORE ON BOSNIA

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, as I was saying, there is nothing more 
important we can be doing tomorrow morning than make a definitive 
statement on Bosnia.
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, there is an aspect to this that can be like 
one of the best debates in this century, and that was the debate over 
Desert Storm and Desert Shield.
  What I would say, we are not going to yell at anybody that says their 
vision of supporting the troops is just a cave-in to Clinton. We are 
going to discuss the Constitution, the powers allocated to the 
presidency, Republican, Democrat, or prohibition party. This is not an 
imperial presidency that can send people no matter what the needs to 
Tibet, Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, Haiti, and back to all the Balkan 
countries, without the Congress, both the House and the Senate, 
weighing in in the debate.
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, the question is not 
whether we support the troops or not. Both the gentleman and I will 
support the troops, we will salute those troops, we will go over and 
visit them, in fact, over the holidays if they are in fact sent. But we 
have a responsibility to ask very difficult questions before we commit 
troops to get involved in a 500-year civil war.

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