On the recordSeptember 5, 1996
What we are responding here, what the whole Congress is responding to is certainly not a disgrace. It is a response to the administration's repeated subordination of U.S. interests to the U.N. agenda. Mr. Chairman, I want to put in the Record myth No. 1, that it is an infringement of presidential authority; No. 2, that PDD-25 already protects our troops; No. 3, there are precedents for placing U.S. troops under foreign control; and myth No. 4, that it will limit troop deployment in emergencies. Yes, it is 16 words, as I said. The President is the Commander in Chief, even in peacetime. And I was correct, it is 18 words referring to the militia, now meaning the National Guard. But in section 8 of article I, all the powers of raising and maintaining armies and navies and how to uniform and where to send them and to declare war, all of that is the House.
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