[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7838]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             THIS PLACE IS GETTING CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Madam Speaker, yesterday, as I listened to that 
debate, I thought of my time in the Vietnam war when I listened to 
soldiers and sailors and marines talk about what it was like fighting a 
war when the American people did not support them. I got to wonder what 
people think sitting on the flight line in Aviano in Italy today, 
asking themselves:
  Where is the Congress? Are we going out there risking our lives, and 
they do not support us?
  Now I watched last night when the leadership of this House stood by 
that back retail and did not turn a single vote around. Amazing. One 
can be the leader of this House, and they cannot change a single vote. 
They do not even speak to anybody to change a vote.
  Now next week we will see it all different. Then we will have an 
appropriations act out here, and we will want to give money to an 
effort that we do not support.
  Madam Speaker, Lewis Carroll must be writing the script because this 
place is getting curiouser and curiouser.

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