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Robert Dornan: Although Bill Clinton went to great lengths to avoid going to Vietnam during his draft age years, try three times, the…

On the recordApril 25, 1996
Although Bill Clinton went to great lengths to avoid going to Vietnam during his draft age years, try three times, the President, who made a round-the-world swing last week, has put the southeast Asian nation, that is Communist Vietnam, at the top of his must see list next year if he gets reelected. Then the paragraph closes, like every other recent President, Clinton, they say, wants to be remembered mainly as a peacemaker. Well, at Oxford, ditching classes and flunking out and not getting his degree, he made sure that the killing fields would prevail in Cambodia and Laos and 68,000 of our friends would be executed in Vietnam. I cannot vote, Mr. Speaker, for the appropriations bill today, not because my HIV language was taken out. I would have traded that off for the two great pro-life provisions, but Clinton thinks with his infanticide vote he has locked up all the abortion industry. He wanted to get back the homosexual industry. It is this POW bracelet. Any veteran or man of conscience cannot vote for the appropriations bill today.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Addressing the appropriations bill and criticizing President Clinton's actions regarding Vietnam and abortion.

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