[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 160 (Thursday, November 13, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H10776]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          SEND IN THE MARINES

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, at first the Democrat leader, Tom Daschle, 
said he knew of no Americans who were overtaxed, and then the President 
of the United States, Bill Clinton, said he thought the people of 
Virginia were selfish for wanting to keep more of their own money 
rather than send it to expert Washington bureaucrats.
  But now a top Democrat woman in the Pentagon says that the U.S. 
Marines are extremists. Now, think about this. Monday was the Marine 
Corps birthday, a great, proud, fighting outfit that has been in the 
battles and the wars fought for our freedom throughout the history of 
America, and yet here is what Democrat Sara Lister says: ``The Marines 
are extremists. Whenever you have extremists, you have some risk that a 
total disconnection with society will take place, and that is very 
dangerous.''
  Well, I will say this to Ms. Lister. Although I do not know you and I 
was not a Marine, I would ask you this. Have you ever dug in a foxhole? 
Have you ever had dirt in your face? Have you ever had the blood 
splattered on your uniform of a buddy as he or she lies dying, and did 
that blood splatter make a permanent star on your emotions?
  I say, Mr. Speaker, send in the Marines; send out Sara Lister. Let us 
have her resignation today.

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