Political Quotes

“I will vote for the Gilman amendment for one reason and one reason only: The Gilman amendment includes the Hoyer amendment which would lift the U.N. arms embargo against Bosnia and Herzegovina and allow that nation to defend itself. There are several provisions of the Gilman amendment that are troubling to me. I support the continuation of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which the Gilman amendment would privatize. I support the work of the Agency for International Development and strongly disagree with the Gilman amendment's reductions in personnel at AID. But I have been to Bosnia. I have seen the slaughter of the people there. I have been huddled with those people in basements which were their only sanctuary after their city was shelled. The Bosnian Serbs are maiming and killing innocent people and the arms embargo continues to tie the hands of the people of Bosnia in their efforts at self-defense. The Hoyer amendment, I believe, can help to bring the war in Bosnia more quickly to an end. The Hoyer amendment will let the people of Bosnia know that the United States Congress stands with them. For that reason and that reason alone, I vote today for the Gilman amendment which includes the Hoyer amendment to give the people of Bosnia their right to self-defense.”