[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7797]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  ON KOSOVO: BIPARTISAN VOTE IN HOUSE

  (Mr. OSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. OSE. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues, I have been a Member of this 
House for 14 weeks, as I shared earlier today; and I have to tell my 
colleagues, my pride in serving here and the honor that I share in 
being here multiplied at least three orders of magnitude today.
  I am a thousand times more proud today of the action of this House in 
exercising its constitutional authority as one of the legs of this 
government in specifying its concerns from both sides of the aisle as 
to the action we have been undertaking in Kosovo.
  I want to note for the record that in fact this was a bipartisan vote 
on both sides of the question. There were more Republicans voting in 
favor of continuing the President's action in Kosovo than there were 
Democrats voting against it. But, in fact, there were Members on both 
sides of the question, from both sides of the aisle.
  This is a strength of America. It is the thing we have that no one 
else in this world does. It is something to be proud of rather than 
question. And I am still honored to be here.
  God bless the United States of America.

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