Political Quotes

“I rise respectfully to oppose the Skelton amendment. NATO has achieved a victory, but it is really not a victory. It is a cessation of war, a cessation for now. The war is stopped not because of bombing but because Congress did not give wholesale authorization to the war. It is important that Congress maintain its constitutional duty to reign the administration's war policies through not providing a blanket authorization past September 30, which the Skelton amendment would affect. The agreement that was passed involving the war does not involve the KLA, and the fact that it does not involve the KLA ought to give pause to Members of this Congress, because the KLA's goal is still an independent Kosovo. We could end up in a situation where our young men and women whom we all support would be in a circular firing squad with KLA members being arrested and Serb units trying to get back into the province. A vote against the Skelton amendment would be a vote to support the troops. The only way that we are going to have peace in the end is to make sure that there continues to be congressional oversight. Let us not give that up.”