Alcee Hastings: “Mr. Chairman, I cannot quarrel with the basic premise. The gentleman answered the question I was going to put to him…”

“Mr. Chairman, I cannot quarrel with the basic premise. The gentleman answered the question I was going to put to him with reference to genocide. He and I were in the hearing yesterday when Senator Dole talked about the personal experience where Albanian homes were destroyed, and Serbian homes were standing. His comment was, ``It does not take me to be a rocket scientist to recognize what is going on.'' The gentleman from California and I have a disagreement as to genocide. Would the gentleman agree that, if genocide is in fact occurring, or at some other time the international community does deign that genocide is occurring, that it would be appropriate for us to respond in that instance?”