[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 60 (Thursday, April 29, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H2475-H2476]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      LAST NIGHT'S APPALLING VOTE

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Speaker, what have we wrought? I 
ended my time on the floor last night by speaking to this body of my 
shock and appall at our vote not to support those military men and 
women trying to save lives in the Kosovo area.
  It is interesting, having gone to the Hershey retreat to uphold and 
promote bipartisanship, that yesterday I saw the crumbling edges of 
bipartisanship. I saw the repeat of the impeachment vote, the 
undermining of a President, not because one found good reason that 
there was no basis for this onslaught that is going on or this attack 
that is

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going on in Kosovo because of the enormous loss of life, but because we 
simply do not like him.
  Madam Speaker, it is a shame that we would fall to partisanship while 
thousands and thousands and hundreds of thousands of women and children 
are being murdered and moved from their homes. What have we wrought?
  Martin Luther King said injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. 
My question to my Republican friends: Where is the outrage?
  Stop the partisanship. Let us unify around saving lives, and standing 
up for American principles and believing that we must fight this 
humanitarian war.

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