William Helms: “forgive me for not being able to stand. I do not know where I put an end to mistaken statements in this debate. I have…”

“forgive me for not being able to stand. I do not know where I put an end to mistaken statements in this debate. I have corrected several of them this afternoon. It is a good thing everybody involved in this debate are friends. We will be friends when we walk out of here. But such statements have been made that there have not been any hearings in the Foreign Relations Committee. There have been 3 days of hearings. The statement was made that the Bush administration will be prohibited from further negotiations of the criminal court and that it will be deleted from the statute books should the Senate ever verify the Rome statute. That is simply not so. I hope for the remainder of this debate we can come pretty close to factual statements and not resort to a situation--I do wish the opponents of this amendment will tell how many of our service men and women support their motion to table the amendment of Senator Miller and me. We do not have 5.5 million service people represented by the organizations that have contacted us on their behalf, who support us and who, therefore, support the other side. If they have 5.5 million people, I wish they would trot them out. I yield the floor.”