I support the Clinton Administration's request for $6 billion to stop Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic's campaign of terror, but I cannot support the $12 billion funding package proposed in H.R. 1664. The U.S. role in NATO must be unflinching. The Administration's $6 billion spending request is too important to be bogged down in political maneuvers of non-urgent defense spending. Let us pass the $6 billion our military needs to continue operating the NATO effort and then debate the merits of additional, non-emergency military funding in another, less urgent forum.
C. W. Bill Young: “I support the Clinton Administration's request for $6 billion to stop Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic's…”
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Addressing funding for NATO military actions in Kosovo during a House floor debate.
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