Robert Dornan: “I am the last Member of the House or Senate to have been in Haiti. I am the last Member of the House or Senate to have…”

“I am the last Member of the House or Senate to have been in Haiti. I am the last Member of the House or Senate to have been in Somalia. I did not bring out the flag in either case. I wish I had in Somalia. I went to Somalia within a few days following my distinguished colleague, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Murtha], to find out why 18 of America's best-trained soldiers had died in what they called the firefight from hell. Three days later, Sergeant Matthew Rierson was killed with an unlucky mortar shot at the headquarters of the Rangers, and a dud landed at the feet of a U.S. two-star general, or we would have lost one of our best Special Forces major generals. Now, I am standing here to tell you and to tell about 12 to 18 to 20 Republicans, including 2 or 3 freshmen, that we are starting to lose some of you on the Contract With America. Please pay attention to why this is one of the core items of our Contract With America. The gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman] had this chart made up. This is as of about May 1994. I do not want to distract you from my remarks, but please come down and take a look at this utter madness, what happens when our troops are under foreign command.”