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


                      HOUSE VOTES REGARDING KOSOVO

  (Mr. POMEROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POMEROY. Madam Speaker, there is a vile partisanship in this 
Chamber. We may have a new Speaker, but make no mistake about it, we 
have the same utterly dysfunctional leadership that saw us through 
government shutdowns and that made a partisan mockery out of the 
constitutional impeachment responsibility in this body.
  Yesterday more than 30 Members of the majority voted against stopping 
U.S. participation in the NATO action, against the horrendous ethnic 
cleansing of Slobodan Milosevic, but then refused to vote for a 
resolution in support of the NATO action. There can only be one 
explanation for the House vote against the NATO campaign. The 
Republican majority will seize any opportunity to strike at President 
Clinton, even if it means giving encouragement to such a vile criminal 
as Slobodan Milosevic. Our national interest must rise above our 
partisan inclinations. The memory of those killed and raped in Kosovo 
and the support of the brave men and women carrying out this mission on 
NATO's behalf deserve better than this vote.

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