[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 141 (Thursday, October 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H12268-H12269]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                MILITARY BEING PUT IN DIFFICULT POSITION

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from New York for 
his nice comments. If I was doing anything to demean military 
personnel, please, let me apologize over and over again. You know and I 
know that DOD directive 1344.10 is absolutely opposed to partisan 
activities on active duty, and yet if they are sent there by the Joint 
chiefs and get used that way, what do they do?
  It is because of whistleblowers in the military that we are very 
concerned about this and raised red flags. Yet, apparently, the 
Secretary of Defense said put them down, we are going to do this, and 
told them to do it anyway.
  So I salute them for coming forward, and I thank the gentleman. The 
Sergeant Bilco thing of bilking the taxpayer, we do not want. I do 
think they

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are some of the finest people that have been around, and I do think 
that they get put in a very difficult position when we use them.
  So I thank the gentleman for his support on this. We will work hard 
to get it straightened out.

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