Robert Dornan: “I come to the floor today under unprecedented circumstances. I had signed up for this special order earlier in the week…”

“I come to the floor today under unprecedented circumstances. I had signed up for this special order earlier in the week, had moved to cancel it this morning, because at this moment I was supposed to be taking off from Andrews Air Force Base on a congressional delegation to Hanoi. It was a delegation led by minority Members in the other body, the U.S. Senate. Any minute, a page, Madam Speaker, is going to bring out my passport stamped this morning with a visa by the Vietnamese section, we do not have diplomatic relations with Vietnam, with a visa to go to Hanoi on this trip. Across my visa, I have just been informed by one of my staffers who speaks Vietnamese is the word 'canceled' and my visa was canceled by a telephone contact of a U.S. Senator, a minority Senator, who was elected to this House in 1974. Now, I have the press waiting for me out on the grassy triangle following the press conference by the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. Smith] on abuses in Communist China.”