Donald M. Payne: “I still contend that if we are going to deal with sub-Saharan Africa, that has been the forgotten area. The only time we…”

“I still contend that if we are going to deal with sub-Saharan Africa, that has been the forgotten area. The only time we dealt with sub-Saharan Africa was in the Cold War when we dealt with Mobutu, who now has left that country in such bad straits that even a new government, a fledgling government, I question whether the Kabila government will actually make it. And the fact that we have still a Civil War in Angola between Savimbi holding out, and the dos Santos government, we still have remnants of the Cold War, where we used Africa as a vehicle in that war. I simply say it is time we try to correct those Cold War problems that we created. I think this is a vehicle that we could do it with. I think it is too little. All of these fears that I hear of organized labor, hundreds of thousands of textile jobs being lost, I just cannot believe that people would believe that this first step would create that. I do not believe it will do that. I think it will really just be a little drop in the bucket and a step in the right direction. I still say, there are no kings in sub-Saharan Africa. If we are going to have elections, how can, therefore, governance be declared in Morocco when they do not elect their head of State?”