Political Quotes

“I am in favor of this amendment. This amendment requires the President to submit a report to Congress confirming European obligations in Kosovo. If, before April 1, 2001 a report is not submitted, then the amendment would prohibit funding for further deployment of US ground troops. This amendment is a common sense amendment. It does not withhold funding for maintaining our troops that are there currently. It is flexible because it gives the President room to waive this requirement for up to 180 days. And it provides the President time to certify that our allies are meeting up to their financial commitments. Mr. Chairman, the current situation in the Balkans is grim and unpromising. Ethnic cleansing is still taking place. More than a year later we are witnessing reversed ethnic cleansing of Serbs and Gypsies by Albanians. Since June of last year, more than 240,000 Serbs, Roma and Muslim Slav Gurani have fled the province of Kosovo. Human rights abuses are rampant.”