J. Exon: “I think we are all very troubled with the situation in Bosnia, and troubled we should be. But I do not believe a…”

“I think we are all very troubled with the situation in Bosnia, and troubled we should be. But I do not believe a feel-good amendment, like the one offered by Senators Dole, Lieberman, Mack, Lugar, McCain, Levin, Feingold, Hatch, Dorgan and McConnell, is one that we should adopt. I suspect and am afraid it might be adopted because it is one of those amendments that you can vote for and say, ``Boy, I really did something.'' Basically, what does this amendment do? This amendment starts out by saying: Prohibition. Neither the President nor any other member of the executive branch of the United States Government shall interfere with the transfer of arms to the Government of Bosnia. Termination. The President shall terminate United States arms embargo of the Government of Bosnia * * * And so forth. I think it is very wrong, as this amendment suggests, for the United States of America to take unilateral action on lifting the arms embargo. That has been an action of the United Nations. I still think that we can and should work through the United Nations on this matter. I will simply say that I will vote against this amendment and hope that it will be defeated.”