[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 125 (Thursday, September 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10347]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           PRESIDENT GOING BEYOND MANDATES OF U.N. RESOLUTION

  (Mr. WELDON asked and was given permission to address theHouse for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I am outraged at what is 
currently happening here--comments being made.
  First of all, there is no Member of this body who does not fully 
support our troops. Let us make that statement known up front. In fact 
we on this side have restored $8 billion of cuts that this 
administration made to support those troops.
  What is happening right now is that this President is going beyond 
the mandates of the U.N. resolution, which do not give the United 
States unilateral authority to go in and take action in Iraq. There is 
no provision in there for unilateral action. The allies are not behind 
us, as President Bush had when he went in there in the first place. In 
fact, Saudi Arabia is now considering denying us basing rights for the 
F-117's.

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  We know nothing about what is occurring. As a senior member of the 
Committee on National Security, I asked our chairman, who has not been 
briefed, about what is occurring, and we are about to send our young 
pilots into harm's way with no plan, no functionary understanding for 
us in this Congress about what the ultimate game plan is.
  The War Powers Act requires this President to consult with us, and we 
in this institution should demand that take place.
  If anyone wants to charge politics, I would say the politics is this 
administration rushing to send our troops into harm's way with no 
justifiable situation that merits that action.

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