[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             SUPPORT A DIPLOMATIC END TO CONFLICT IN KOSOVO

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, there are those who would say that 
involvement by Congress or private citizens in U.S. foreign diplomacy 
in the Balkans is not necessary and we can only complicate matters.
  Fortunately, Mr. Speaker, we do not have to look very far to see 
these naysayers could not be farther from the truth. They could not be 
farther out of touch with America's wishes for peace and the quick and 
safe return of our military men and women.
  We need only to look at the Reverend Jesse Jackson and his very 
successful campaign to free our U.S. POWs, and we need only to look no 
farther than this House, where numerous delegations, bipartisan 
delegations, have traveled great distances to observe firsthand U.S. 
military involvement in the dire refugee situation in the Kosovo 
region.
  I commend and salute my colleagues, both Republican and Democrat, and 
the leadership of both parties for supporting our effort to build a 
better understanding and working relationship with our counterparts in 
the Russian Duma. This information gathered by these bipartisan 
delegations provides all of us with a clear picture on how we can 
better do our job representing the American people on global issues.

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