Dana Rohrabacher: “Mr. Chairman, I am afraid I am going to have to reject the idea of putting a waiver into this bill. The bottom line is…”

“Mr. Chairman, I am afraid I am going to have to reject the idea of putting a waiver into this bill. The bottom line is when we put waivers into these bills, what we do is we are really making them into a sense-of-the-Congress resolution and not changing a darned thing. If we are here to do anything, let us change some things. Let us get down to some real policy decisions and assert the fact that the Congress of the United States should be here protecting the interests of the people of the United States. The McKinney amendment had some real teeth in it and meant something about human rights and democracy. This amendment has something to do really with the security interest of the United States. What we are saying is that there is a threshold over which the Russians have passed, over that threshold that we can no longer tolerate and continue to give them millions upon millions, $95 million in aid to the Russians. It is unacceptable if we are going to give them that kind of aid for them to transfer weapons that are aimed at murdering, at killing American soldiers and American sailors.”