[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 55 (Thursday, April 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3828]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      VIETNAM VETERANS AND MEN OF CONSCIENCE CANNOT VOTE FOR THE 
                          APPROPRIATIONS BILL

  (Mr. DORNAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, item in this week's April 29 U.S. News & 
World Report. ``Clinton Won't Dodge Vietnam.'' That is their word, 
``dodge,'' not mine.
  Although Bill Clinton went to great lengths to avoid going to Vietnam 
during his draft age years, try three times, the President, who made a 
round-the-world swing last week, has put the southeast Asian nation, 
that is Communist Vietnam, at the top of his must see list next year if 
he gets reelected.
  Then the paragraph closes, like every other recent President, 
Clinton, they say, wants to be remembered mainly as a peacemaker. Well, 
at Oxford, ditching classes and flunking out and not getting his 
degree, he made sure that the killing fields would prevail in Cambodia 
and Laos and 68,000 of our friends would be executed in Vietnam.
  I cannot vote, Mr. Speaker, for the appropriations bill today, not 
because my HIV language was taken out. I would have traded that off for 
the two great pro-life provisions, but Clinton thinks with his 
infanticide vote he has locked up all the abortion industry. He wanted 
to get back the homosexual industry. It is this POW bracelet. Any 
veteran or man of conscience cannot vote for the appropriations bill 
today.

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