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November 2, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð HOUSE H 11759 I have not added those together. It is Committee, in our authorization and we only had one speaker on the Floor, 405,399 Americans dead, killed in ac- appropriations bills that are now in the probably the preeminent hero, military tion, noncombat, and we are already hands of the Republican majority in hero in this Chamber, SAM JOHNSON of now in AIDS cases pressing 500,000. Two the Senate. And its leader is the lead- Texas spoke about no money for the years from now, in many cases in only ing Presidential candidates. In most normalization of any relations with 6 months, in all cases within 5 years, general polling in our 50 States, ROB- Hanoi until we have resolved lots of re- we will have added 100,000 more to the ERT DOLE has more percentage points, maining agonizing missing in action death toll, and it will have passed all now that we are almost within a few cases. deaths from World War II, just within days of being inside the election year the next few months, already passed itself, he has got more points than all f the combat deaths. What a tragedy the rest of the other nine put together. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER that more candidates other than my- So I propose, Mr. Speaker, through you self and Alan Keyes are not discussing to my good friend, and he knows I ad- PRO TEMPORE the moral crisis and meltdown we have. mire him, Mr. DOLE, the five following The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. When we come back into session next questions: NETHERCUTT). The Chair reminds Mem- Tuesday night, Mr. Speaker, for votes One, when are you going to crack the bers that it is not in order in debate to at 6:00, it will be Tuesday November 7. whip, use your whipÐmy pal, who I specifically urge the Senate to take a The date of the Presidential election served with for a decade in the House certain action or to characterize Sen- next year is November 5. I have a here, Mr. TRENT LOTT, Senator LOTT of ate inaction. countdown watch quite seriously to re- MississippiÐwhen are you going to mind me of that date every day, sev- crack the whip, use your leadership Mr. DORNAN. I knew that, Mr. eral times during the day. It is only 445 powers to resolve the Ben Gilman-Bob Speaker, and it had slipped my mind. days to the inauguration of hopefully a Dornan-Floyd Spence language on the Then it is up to this Congress, both new President. But it is 76 days in the missing in action, missing persons of- Chambers, to resolve in conference interregnum from the election on No- fice under the secretary of defense, the that no money for normalization with vember 5 to January 20, 1997. POW missing in action, secretary of de- Hanoi, passed unanimously by voice So let us just talk about the election. fense office for missing persons, mili- vote in this Chamber with only Mr. We will be inside the Presidential elec- tary persons? When will that be re- SAM JOHNSON of Dallas, TX retired Air tion year by 2 days after I am through solved so that we do not have a repeat Force Colonel, 7-year prisoner in speaking when this House next con- of the agonizing situation I am about Hanoi, speaking for 21¤2 minutes. One venes. It is a leap year, so there will be to discuss that is before me, involving objection from the other side by a fel- 364 days left to the election. a funeral, a forced funeral next low POW who had not undergone the Now, have we gotten into a serious Wednesday of an air crewman from an severe torture and solitary confine- discussion, a debate between the 10 Re- AC±130 Hercules Spectra gunship. So, ment that a senior officer like Mr. SAM publican candidates, that is with the Mr. Leader, in the Senate, through JOHNSON of Texas had undergone, and two millionaire CEO's involve, Mr. you, Mr. Speaker, I ask for action on he only spoke for less than half a Morey Taylor and Steve Forbes, good this. minute and said, I object, but did not men both, with the eight millionaires Item No. 2 in BEN GILMAN's bills are call for a vote. That sits over on the and the two of us who are words from our Contract With America Senate, that sits now in conference. nonmillionaries, Alan Keyes and my- that I wrote together with Congress- The House is standing on its position. self, have we had a chance to exchange man JOHN DOOLITTLE of northern Cali- No. 4, we have passed my language on one question between one another? No, fornia, no U.S. soldiers, Marines or pi- we have not. Every Presidential forum no abortion in military hospitals, not lots under foreign officers, under U.N. once, Mr. Speaker, not twice or 3 or 4 has been a job interview, put your best command or any other command un- or 5, 6 times in this House, on author- foot forward, try to be gentle to the less there is a ratified treaty such as ization bills and appropriation bills, we other candidates. Most of us are except NATO where we have trained together, have voted to protect the Dornan lan- one. When you are running No. 2, it is in the case of NATO it is almost half a guage on no abortions in military hos- tempting I guess to try and tear down century, a few years shy of half a cen- pitals without a single military doctor, No. 1. But we have not had an ex- tury of training together, no U.S. male or female, Navy, they covered the change. troops under U.N. command, and we Marine Corps also, Army or Air Force, I hope that will come up on the 17th will not have the nightmare of E±5 spe- Pacific or Europe, Mediterranean, no- and 18th in mid-Florida in Orlando cialist Michael Nu who has no recollec- where in the world has a doctor written with what Jeb Bush, the organizer of tion of ever raising his right hand and it, has proudly called Presidential 3. swearing to uphold any Constitution to me as the chairman of military per- Maybe we will get to exchange ques- other than the one written by James sonnel and said, I want to perform tions. And maybe I can get some of my Madison and worked over and perfected abortions in the military. As a matter worthy competitors, the other nine, to in this very Congress 200 years ago and of hard fact, I fought this through sub- answer some of the questions that they the other body. He has no recollection. committee and full committee and sus- are all asking Colin Powell to answer. Senator, has anybody in the United tained in debate my own language And foremost among those questions, States military ever been asked under through six House recorded votes. I did and I have the 22 that I proposed in the oath to defend the U.N. charter, let this at the behest of men and women well last evening, and I finally have alone to wear regalia or insignia of any who wear the uniform of our services, here the 22 questions that George Will other military force in Bosnia or any- who are medically trained doctors, and proposed, I am going to put all 44 in where else? who are ob/gyn doctors that told me the RECORD, but let me first ask five I want to know what is the status of that in the military they defend life, questions of our leader in the Senate, that, Mr. Speaker, what is our leader they do not take life. which will take me into a heart- doing to nail that down in the next few That vote yesterday, again, I keep breaking situation that I have just days? We were supposed to have ad- track of my own particular religious learned about this week and discussed journed a month ago. A year from now denomination, 41 people, Mr. Speaker, in depth in the Rayburn Room just off we will have been adjourned for an who put Roman Catholic after their the Democratic cloakroom. It involves election, on or about October 1st. So name in their official congressional bi- our missing in action. there is only 11 months left, no matter ographies, mercifully only 4 Repub- There are five items in the Repub- what, before we all go home for at least lican Catholics and 37 on the other side lican conference bills for Chairman a month to campaign for the 1996 elec- of the aisle who put Catholic in their BEN GILMAN's Committee on Inter- tion. biography voted against stopping the national Relations, authorization and/ No. 3, in Mr. GILMAN's legislation, au- killing by sucking out the brain tissue or appropriations bills, and for the thorization/appropriations, again I was of a fully formed late stage fetus child Committee on National Security, for- one of the authors of this, together after it is fully brought down the birth merly known as the Armed Services with a freshman, BOB BARR of Georgia, canal except for the head, and they H 11760 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð HOUSE November 2, 1995 voted to allow that procedure to con- tions, and that was to heed the elo- One of my staff called the Council on tinue, that brutal procedure that, as quent plea last night of my colleague Foreign Relations up in New York Mr.