[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 125 (Thursday, September 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10348]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CONGRESS NEEDS TO BE INFORMED

  (Mr. CHAMBLISS asked and was given permission to address theHouse for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I want to just echo the remarks of the 
gentleman from California and the gentleman from Pennsylvania that have 
just gotten up here and talked about.
  I would say to my friend from New York there has never been anybody 
in this House in the year and 9 months I have been here who has 
supported our troops more than I have. I have given them my full 
support in Bosnia, over an operation which I did not particularly agree 
with, but I supported the men and women once they were there.
  We are on the brink right now of potentially another Operation Desert 
Storm, but yet nobody in this House has any idea what is going on.
  I just left a national security meeting 30 minutes ago, in which the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Weldon] made the comment, he said does 
anybody on either side of the aisle have any information about exactly 
what is going on in Iraq right now.
  Nobody, nobody has any idea, and yet we are asked to stand up here 
and take action to fund operations we know nothing about, to support 
operations we know nothing about.
  I think it is unfair. It is un-American. This body deserves to know. 
I implore the President to inform us, to let us know what is going on.

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