Tom Tancredo: “last week, we had Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in front of the Committee on International Relations delivering…”

“last week, we had Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in front of the Committee on International Relations delivering an address detailing activities of the Department of State over the last year, identifying all of the hot spots in the world where American interests were at stake, identifying what the United States of America was doing about them. It was intriguing, Mr. Speaker, because, in over half an hour of a normal presentation and certainly maybe 20 or 30 pages of written presentation that discussed in every way all of the issues that we could possibly confront in foreign policy position, there was one that was conspicuous for its absence, one spot in the world that was never mentioned, one nation that was never brought to the attention of the Committee on International Relations or, as a matter of fact, it has not been brought to the attention of this Nation by this administration, and that is the nation of Sudan. There, as the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) said so eloquently a little bit ago, in the last 15 years, over 2 million people have died in that civil war. That is more than have died in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Rwanda combined. Yet, in the face of this tragedy, what we have seen has been a lackluster attempt on the part of this administration to deal with it.”