Liz Saville Roberts: “The reason that I brought this up is that we have several Senators who are considering amendments on Kosovo. One I think…”

“The reason that I brought this up is that we have several Senators who are considering amendments on Kosovo. One I think would simply say that the Congress would have to vote before any deployment of any American pilot in any kind of a military mission and/ or ground troops would set foot on Kosovo. That is the extra step, if you will, to certainly include the Congress in any decisionmaking. But I would point out to my colleagues, and I made mention of this when I spoke on behalf of this bill, i.e., the bill in regard to retirement reform and pay reform, and I pointed out that we have in the law--and let me just point out it is Public Law 105-262, October 17, 1998. It is a public law, and the President signed it. And there is section 8115(a), and we say: None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this Act may be obligated or expended for any additional deployment of forces of the Armed Forces of the United States to Yugoslavia, Albania, or Macedonia unless and until the President, after consultation with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, and the minority of the Senate, transmits to Congress a report on the deployment that includes the following: And I want my colleagues to understand this. This is the law of the land. And the National Security Council is aware of this.”