[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10009]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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            CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT OF THE LIBYAN OPERATION

  (Mr. GARAMENDI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GARAMENDI. It appears this morning and today the House of 
Representatives and Congress will be carrying out its constitutional 
responsibilities dealing with the war in Libya. Resolutions will be on 
the floor. Appropriately, we will be voting today on whether we want to 
end, limit, or extend.
  For me, I think we have to carry out the U.N. resolution that calls 
for the right to protect or the obligation and duty to protect. That is 
why the Libyan situation started. That needs to be completed.
  I would suggest that the Hastings resolution that gives a year is 
good in that it provides the necessary restrictions on the White House 
and on the military in the Libya operation and basically puts the 
United States in a support position. I would prefer that there be an 
amendment to that--perhaps it will be in a motion to recommit--that it 
be limited to 6 months.

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