Doug Bereuter: “during this Member's service on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, I have sought to operate in a bipartisan manner. This…”

“during this Member's service on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, I have sought to operate in a bipartisan manner. This Member has always adhered to the old adage that politics should stop at the water's edge. On many issues, from South Africa to Chile to China, this Member worked with his colleagues on the other side of the aisle, in order to forge a consensus policy. Therefore, this Member rises to voice his concerns about the Clinton administration's foreign policy with great reluctance and only after considerable thought. But this Member cannot, and this House should not, remain silent in the face of the increasingly troublesome drift in American foreign policy; a drift that, if allowed to continue, will have a devastating effect on international stability, the world economy, and the influence and well-being of the United States. It is this Member's fear, for example, that the administration's indecision and uncertainty on the proper role of military force in U.S. foreign policy is undermining the U.S. status as leader of the free world.”