NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I commend my colleagues the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Schaffer) and the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) and…”

“I commend my colleagues the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Schaffer) and the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker) and others, including our very good friend, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon), who lead the delegation to the former Soviet Union, the Russian Federation. Again, I think it is important to underscore the unprecedented nature of such a visit, American legislators meeting with their Russian counterparts to explain and cut through the haze of disinformation and other impulses that may linger from the Cold War that, in the situation which we find ourselves, there is a legitimate stake in self-defense for this constitutional republic, for our American Nation, and for the American people. I might also point out, as genuine as the threat is from North Korea, the area in and around the Persian Gulf remains an area of grave and great concern. Given the proximity of Israel to that region of the world, indeed given the Scud attacks on Israel, this administration proposed a few years ago that the Israelis might want to have a missile defense.”