Robert Dornan: “What I wanted to do was to point out at the end of my special order, because I got caught a little about there, that I…”

“What I wanted to do was to point out at the end of my special order, because I got caught a little about there, that I have asked unanimous consent they duplicate it to put it in the Record at the end of my remarks for any Americans tracking us through the gallery of visits here, or through the electronic wizardry of C-SPAN I and II, that I am putting into the record the vote. You were here for that great debate in January 1991, so was the Speaker pro tempore; 180 Democrats voted against doing anything about Saddam Hussein. Some of them even voted against the sanctions, like my pal, Eliot Engel, although he voted for hostile action. But all the leadership: Tom Foley, who was the Speaker, Mr. Bonior, who was in leadership then, Mr. Hoyer, the entire leadership here and the entire leadership that is over there today in the Senate: Mr. Daschle, then the majority leader, Mr. Mitchell, they all voted against doing anything. And Admiral Crowe, who had risen to glory under Reagan and Bush, he wrote against any action, and his reward is to be the Ambassador to England in the Court of St. James. Now we have these same people coming to the floor. The gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Markey] at least had the decency to say, well, he voted no because he thought we went into week 2 early and left a few days too late, and I might agree with the analysis, but that is not a reason to vote against going in at all, because he did not know when we were going in.”