S8456 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE July 17, 1998 like, in the morning business segment, support the Marriage Tax Elimination Act as for his suggestion so we can accommo- or perhaps the opening segment of the one step in the right direction. The current date the needs of our colleagues. tax code, while it still exists, should be used appropriations bill, to be able to dis- f patch that business and let whoever as a vehicle to promote social responsibility. It certainly should not be used in a punitive wants to talk, do it until they are ex- SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING manner toward the preeminent institution of THE CULPABILITY OF SLOBODAN hausted. marriage and family. You are speaking of a subject of some MILOSEVIC FOR WAR CRIMES How better could you describe it than importance, I admit that. I am sympa- Mr. D’AMATO. Mr. President, I ask that? ‘‘It certainly should not be used thetic to the issue you are raising. I unanimous consent that the Foreign in a punitive manner toward the pre- hope that you perhaps would allow us Relations Committee be discharged eminent institution of marriage and to do the things we would like to do in from further consideration of S. Con. family.’’ preparation to get the bill to the floor. Res. 105, and, further, that the Senate They go on to state: Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, re- proceed to its immediate consider- taining the floor, I am going to proceed We welcome the Marriage Tax Elimination ation. on forward with a discussion of the Act introduced today by representatives Dave McIntosh and Jerry Weller. This bill The PRESIDING OFFICER. The marriage tax penalty. I withdraw my can be a first step in recognizing in law that clerk will report. unanimous consent request if it is not the family is the first church, the first The legislative clerk read as follows: going to be agreed to. school, the first government, the first hos- A concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 105) The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- pital, the first economy, and the first and expressing the sense of the Congress regard- ator from Kansas has the floor. most vital mediating institution in our cul- ing the culpability of Slobodan Milosevic for Mr. BROWNBACK. I was proceeding ture. In order to encourage stable two-parent war crimes, crimes against humanity, and earlier, before allowing the Senator marriage bound households we can no longer genocide in the former , and for from Nevada to speak before catching a support a tax code that penalizes them,’’ other purposes. plane. Fournier said. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there A number of groups have taken no- Then this is what John Paul II objection to the immediate consider- tice of this issue of a marriage tax pen- said in a letter in a publication called ation of the concurrent resolution? alty and think that it is clearly time ‘‘Christian Family in the Modern There being no objection, the Senate and it is important that we at this World.’’ The Pope says this: proceeded to consider the resolution. time address this particular issue. . . . families should grow in awareness of Mr. D’AMATO addressed the Chair. The Independent Women’s Forum has being ‘‘protagonists’’ of what is known as The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- sent a letter urging Congress to ‘‘put ‘‘family politics’’ and assume responsibility ator from New York. for transforming society; otherwise families the Tax Code where its rhetoric is.’’ Mr. D’AMATO. Mr. President, I be- I think that is a real interesting way will be the first victims of the evils that lieve we are about to take historic ac- they state that in the letter. ‘‘We they have done no more than note with indif- tion that is so important, because, to should put the Tax Code where the ference. date, what we have been doing is plead- Congress’ rhetoric is.’’ We talk a lot There are some pretty strong terms ing, negotiating, hoping while the about families, values, and virtues, and that they noted. world burns in front of us. When I say those sorts of institutions that make UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT ‘‘the world,’’ I am talking of tech- for a civil society. We talk endlessly Mr. D’AMATO. Mr. President, I won- nically the people in this war-torn area about those things. Yet, then we tax der if my colleague will yield for a sug- of Kosovo. them; we tax them disproportionately. gestion that I would propound a unani- It is incredible that 90 percent of the This group has the courage to be able mous consent. I have legislation that I population there are ethnic Albanians to identify, well, I guess then you guys know the Senator from Kansas is sup- under withering attack. In today’s New really don’t mean it. You will say one portive of, and we want the Senate to York Times, it graphically speaks thing and do another. be supportive. It would take me no The Independent Women’s Forum more than 5 minutes to ask that it be about it on the front page. urges Congress to put the Tax Code brought up under a unanimous consent As a witness to this, a former para- where its rhetoric is and eliminate agreement. military, former police officer in the marriage penalties. Serious steps to re- I will speak for no more than 10 min- Serbian police, said he can no longer form tax laws would mean real libera- utes, and probably less, because I have stay there and work there as he tion to those who work and those who had an opportunity to make my views watched innocent women and children may have to in the future. Marriage known; then, further, that the ranking being raped, killed, tortured and sav- aged—3 million people on the move, taxes can impose a nearly 50-percent member, Senator DORGAN, on the legis- marginal tax rate on second earners. lative appropriations, be given up to 15 ethnic cleansing, moving them out of They are saying in their publication, minutes so that he might make his their homes, moving them out of their most of which are spouses, obviously, opening remarks on the legislative ap- communities all because of one thing— this is a State-sponsored discrimina- propriations. That would be no longer all because of their ethnicity. tion, the unintended consequence of than 25 minutes, and thereafter the What we do today is the least we which is to discourage—they are saying Senator would retain the floor and the should be doing; and that is calling for here—women from entering the labor floor would return to him. the United States to, yes, utilize the force. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there provisions that the United Nations set ‘‘If Congress is sincere in improving objection? up in terms of Security Council Resolu- the lives of American families, it will Mr. BROWNBACK. Reserving the tion 827 creating the International eliminate tax loopholes that choke right to object, if at that point in time Criminal Tribunal. paychecks. Real support for the family I would be able to retain the floor, I am This man can and should be charged begins with tax reform.’’ willing to agree. as the war crime criminal that he is. There is a strong letter that they are Mr. D’AMATO. That would be the The documentation has already been citing that we ought to change our Tax agreement. chronicled in one of the best reports, Code along that line. Mr. BROWNBACK. I can then con- which I have submitted to this body. Let’s look at the Catholic Alliance, tinue with my statement and have it The conclusions are inescapable. It is and what they say. appear continuously in the RECORD. called ‘‘War Crimes and the Issue of The Catholic Alliance Endorses the Mar- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Responsibility,’’ prepared by Norman riage Tax Elimination Act. objection? Cigar and Paul Williams. It documents Their president announces support Without objection, it is so ordered. the systematic slaughter and use of for the Marriage Tax Elimination Act The Senator from New York is recog- paramilitary groups against innocent and the end of the marriage tax pen- nized for 10 minutes. civilians. There is no doubt that not alty. They say this: Mr. D’AMATO. I thank my colleague only did he know about that but that Catholic Alliance promotes the primacy of from Kansas for being gracious, and he continues to perpetuate this kind of the family as a matter of public policy. We Senator DORGAN, the ranking member, conduct.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:16 Oct 31, 2013 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\1998SENATE\S17JY8.REC S17JY8 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY July 17, 1998 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S8457 To summarize briefly what Resolu- Most recently, Milosevic’s special po- that the motion to reconsider be laid tion 105 does, it says that we, the lice storm troopers have moved their upon the table, and that any state- United States, should publicly declare grisly activities to Kosovo where they ments relating to the resolution appear its considered reasons to believe that are visiting upon the ethnic Albanian at this point in the RECORD. Milosevic has committed war crimes; population the same horrors suffered The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without that we make the checks of informa- by the Bosnians and Croats. objection, it is so ordered. tion that can be supplied to the Tri- I would like to add a personal note. I AMENDMENTS NUMBERED 3212 AND 3213, EN BLOC bunal as evidence to support an indict- believe that I am one of only a very few The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ment and trial of Milosevic for war Senators who have met Milosevic, and clerk will report the amendments. crimes against humanity and genocide; I am certain that I am the only one The legislative clerk read as follows: that we should undertake it as a high who ever called him a war criminal to The Senator from New York (Mr. D’AMATO) priority; all of the information that we his face. proposes amendments numbered 3212 and collect should be provided to the Tri- In April 1993, on the first of my many 3213, en bloc. bunal as soon as possible; and, there- trips to Bosnia, I also stopped off in The amendments (Nos. 3212 and 3213) after, that we coordinate our activities to see Milosevic. In the en bloc are as follows: with our allies, members of the North course of a lengthy meeting that went AMENDMENT NO. 3212 Atlantic Treaty Organization and oth- on late into the evening, I went (Purpose: To make a technical correction) ers interested in a matter of discussion through the entire litany of the hor- On page 3, line 4, strike ‘‘probable cause’’ of what we can and should be doing to rors that his Serbian troops had per- and insert ‘‘reason’’. apprehend this war criminal and oth- petrated and were continuing to per- AMENDMENT NO. 3213 ers. petrate. Of course, Milosevic protested Yes. Mr. President, the time has On page 5, strike lines 24 through page 6 that he had no control over any of this. line 5. come to gather the evidence and to Nonetheless, he later asked if I want- The amendments (Nos. 3212 and 3213) submit it to the Tribunal, and to see to ed to meet Radovan Karadzic, the Bos- it that this man is branded as the war were agreed to. nian Serb leader who has subsequently The concurrent resolution (S. Con. criminal that he is instead of us all sit- been indicted as a war criminal. I said ting back silently as innocent lives Res. 105), as amended, was agreed to. yes, and twenty minutes later Karadzic The preamble was agreed to. continue to be taken. came running up the steps of The concurrent resolution (S. Con. Mr. President, I thank all of the Milosevic’s palace, totally out of Res. 105), as amended, with its pre- Members of the U.S. Senate for the rel- breath. Rather interesting for a guy atively short period of time Senator amble, is as follows: who supposedly had no influence in S. CON. RES. 105 LIEBERMAN and I began this effort in Bosnia! terms of gathering cosponsors and sup- Whereas there is reason to mark the begin- After all this, Milosevic looked ning of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia port several days ago. across the table and asked, ‘‘What do It makes me proud to be a Member of with Slobodan Milosevic’s rise to power be- you think of me?’’ ginning in 1987, when he whipped up and ex- this body, for people to come together I answered, ‘‘I think you’re a damn ploited extreme nationalism among Serbs, in this way to see, yes, the indictment war criminal!’’ and specifically in Kosovo, including support of this war criminal. And he is one of Milosevic’s reaction was like water for violence against non-Serbs who were la- the most evil men of our period of off a duck’s back. He just resumed beled as threats; time. Make no mistake about it. talking as if nothing had happened. He Whereas there is reason to believe that as Mr. BIDEN. Madam President, I rise President of , Slobodan Milosevic was might as well have said, ‘‘lots of luck today as a co-sponsor in support of S. responsible for the conception and direction in your sophomore year!’’ This is one Con. Res. 105, which expresses the sense of a war of aggression, the deaths of hun- brazen guy. of the Congress regarding the culpa- dreds of thousands, the torture and rape of Mr. President, I said earlier that the bility of Slobodan Milosevic for war tens of thousands and the forced displace- only thing Milosevic cares about is his ment of nearly 3,000,000 people, and that crimes, crimes against humanity, and political survival. I believe that for the mass rape and forced impregnation were genocide in the former Yugoslavia. among the tools used to wage this war; Yugoslav President Milosevic is the first time there is a reasonable chance that he may be failing in this arena Whereas ‘‘ethnic cleansing’’ has been car- walking definition of an unscrupulous ried out in the former Yugoslavia in such a politician. I have come to understand too. consistent and systematic way that it had to the stark truth that the only thing In the person of Milo Djukanovic, the be directed by the senior political leadership that matters to Milosevic is his own dynamic, young reformist President of in Serbia, and Slobodan Milosevic has held political survival. The only thing. Montenegro, the junior partner of Ser- such power within Serbia that he is respon- Since his rise to power in Serbia in bia in the Yugoslav Federation, the sible for the conception and direction of this the late 1980’s, he has been a failure at democratic opposition to Milosevic has policy; everything he has attempted—except, I both a new leader and a constitutional Whereas, as President of the Federal Re- public of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Monte- regret to say, in staying in power. means of expressing its opposition. We must continue to support Djukanovic negro), Slobodan Milosevic is responsible for Slobodan Milosevic has been an un- the conception and direction of assaults by mitigated disaster for the Serbian peo- and Montenegro in their struggle. Yugoslavian and Serbian military, security, ple. In the meantime, as S. Con. Res. 105 special police, and other forces on innocent As a result of his insane attempt at urges, the international community civilians in Kosovo which have so far re- creating a ‘‘Greater Serbia,’’ the cen- should speedily bring Milosevic to trial sulted in an estimated 300 people dead or turies-old Serbian culture in the before the International Tribunal in missing and the forced displacement of tens Krajina and Western Slavonia in Cro- the Hague for his criminal behavior. of thousands, and such assaults continue; atia has been extinguished, the Bos- There is no possibility for lasting Whereas on May 25, 1993, United Nations nian Serb community has been deci- peace in the Balkans until Serbia has a Security Council Resolution 827 created the International Criminal Tribunal for the mated and impoverished, and Serbian democratic government, willing to live former Yugoslavia located in The Hague, the life in Kosovo seems on the verge of in peace and equality with its non-Serb Netherlands (hereafter in this resolution re- eradication. citizens and non-Serb neighbors. Re- ferred to as the ‘‘Tribunal’’), and gave it ju- Of course, that is only half of the moving Milosevic from power is the risdiction over all crimes arising out of the story, for Slobodan Milosevic has also sine qua non for this to happen, and S. conflict in the former Yugoslavia; been a curse for many of the neigh- Con. Res. 105 charts the path. Whereas this Tribunal has publicly in- boring peoples of the Serbs. His vile I thank the Chair and yield the floor. dicted 60 people for war crimes or crimes ‘‘ethnic cleansing’’ led to a quarter- Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- against humanity arising out of the conflict million deaths and more than two mil- sent that the amendments at the desk, in the former Yugoslavia and has issued a number of secret indictments that have only lion refugees and displaced persons in the resolution, and the preamble be been made public upon the apprehension of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnian Mus- agreed to, that the resolution, as the indicted persons; lims, Bosnian Croats, and Croats in amended, be agreed to, that the pre- Whereas it is incumbent upon the United Croatia were brutalized and murdered. amble be agreed to, as amended, and States and all other nations to support the

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The Secretary of the Senate shall Committee, to make some changes tions; transmit a copy of this resolution to the that would be satisfactory to them. Whereas any lasting, peaceful solution to President. These changes will be reflected in the the conflict in the former Yugoslavia must The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- managers’ amendment, and I think this be based upon justice for all, including the ator from New York. process of constructing this rec- most senior officials of the government or ommendation has been a very useful governments responsible for conceiving, or- Mr. D’AMATO. Mr. President, I ganizing, initiating, directing, and sus- thank this body and thank all of my process. It has been a collaborative ef- taining the Yugoslav conflict and whose colleagues for their support of what I fort with the folks in Senate Finance forces have committed war crimes, crimes consider to be a very important initia- and others. against humanity and genocide; and tive. I certainly hope that the House As to this Trade Deficit Review Com- Whereas Slobodan Milosevic has been the acts quickly on this. I believe this is mission, the chairman of the full com- single person who has been in the highest the least that we can and should do. mittee, Senator STEVENS, has been a government offices in an aggressor state very strong supporter and a cosponsor; since before the inception of the conflict in I yield the floor. the ranking member, Senator BYRD, the former Yugoslavia, who has had the Mr. DORGAN addressed the Chair. power to decide for peace and instead decided The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under from West Virginia, a cosponsor and a for war, who has had the power to minimize the previous order, the Senator from very strong supporter as well. I think, illegal actions by subordinates and allies and North Dakota is recognized for 15 min- especially given the news once again hold responsible those who committed such utes. today, it is timely and important, and actions, but did not, and who is once again I appreciate, again, the cooperation of f directing a campaign of ethnic cleansing the chairman of the subcommittee. against innocent civilians in Kosovo while LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS I want to mention the General Ac- treating with contempt international efforts Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, we are counting Office which is funded in this to achieve a fair and peaceful settlement to bill. The GAO, which most people know the question of the future status of Kosovo: at some time going to take up the leg- Now, therefore, be it islative branch appropriations bill for- it by, normally shows up in stories Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- mally. I wanted to make a couple of around the country that are written resentatives concurring), That it is the sense comments in response to the comments about the investigations they do. The of the Congress that— made by the chairman of the Appro- GAO does first-rate investigative work. (1) the United States should publicly de- It is the investigative arm of Congress. clare that it considers that there is reason to priations Subcommittee on Legislative Branch. It is not partisan, has never been par- believe that Slobodan Milosevic, President of tisan. It is a group of dedicated profes- the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia Senator BENNETT spoke about this and Montenegro), has committed war crimes, work of the subcommittee. I have said sionals who, at the direction of Con- crimes against humanity and genocide; before and I will say again I think he is gress, review and study, investigate, (2) the United States should make collec- an awfully good legislator. I appreciate and evaluate a myriad of things we ask tion of information that can be supplied to very much the opportunity to work them to do about how the money that the Tribunal for use as evidence to support with him. We have worked in a cooper- Congress appropriates is being spent. an indictment and trial of President ative spirit, in a bipartisan way, and The GAO is a very, very important Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes organization. We have cut the GAO against humanity, and genocide a high pri- have brought to the floor of the Senate a bill that I think reflects the right substantially over a number of years ority; and now we have tried to stabilize it (3) any such information concerning Presi- priorities and the prudent expenditure with the right kind of investments. It dent Slobodan Milosevic already collected by of the taxpayers’ money for the things is a smaller organization than it was, the United States should be provided to the that are important and necessary. but it is a strong and assertive organi- Tribunal as soon as possible; I especially wish to commend Sen- (4) the United States should provide a fair zation that does wonderful work for ator BENNETT. For those who don’t share of any additional financial or per- Congress. sonnel resources that may be required by the know about his work on what is called I am pleased that the recommenda- Tribunal in order to enable the Tribunal to Y2K or the year 2000 problem, I must tion we have in this particular appro- adequately address preparation for, indict- say, having sat through all of the hear- priations bill reaches the level, albeit a ment of, prosecution of, and adjudication of ings we held, in every instance with much lower level of staffing at the allegations of war crimes and crimes against every agency and every department, GAO than had been there previously, a humanity posed against President Slobodan Senator BENNETT has been very deter- Milosevic and any other person arising from level which I think will give it the mined to make certain that we are on strength to do the job we expect them the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, in- the road to addressing the problems cluding in Kosovo; to do and the American people expect (5) the United States should engage with that confront us with the turn of the them to do. Anyone who has read their other members of the North Atlantic Treaty century and the programming and the reports, read the news reports of the Organization and other interested states in a computer software that exists around studies they have done, knows the discussion of information any such state our country, and he has, of course, value of the GAO. may hold relating to allegations of war since been named chairman of a panel I do want to make a point that I have crimes and crimes against humanity posed on this issue. A lot of people don’t made repeatedly as well. I am pro- against President Slobodan Milosevic and think too much about it because it is a foundly disappointed, with respect to any other person arising from the conflict in year and a half away, but it is a very the former Yugoslavia, including in Kosovo, the GAO, that 21 months have passed and press such states to promptly provide all important issue. Senator BENNETT has since the departure of the Comptroller such information to the Tribunal; been a leader on that issue, and I think General, who is the person who heads (6) the United States should engage with the Senate owes him a debt of grati- the GAO. Comptroller General Bowsher other members of the North Atlantic Treaty tude. headed the GAO for many, many years, Organization and other interested states in a Let me just for a moment mention a a respected professional in every quar- discussion of measures to be taken to appre- couple of items in the appropriations ter in this community and around the hend indicted war criminals and persons in- bill itself. We have in this legislation country. dicted for crimes against humanity with the provided for a Trade Deficit Review objective of concluding a plan of action that Twenty-one months ago Mr. Bowsher will result in these indictees’ prompt deliv- Commission. With the announcement left the GAO. That was not a surprise ery into the custody of the Tribunal; and once again today that the trade deficit because he had reached the end of his (7) the United States should urge the Tri- hit another record high, and the trade rather lengthy term and had an- bunal to promptly review all information re- deficit continues to swell and balloon nounced he was leaving. So we have

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