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W. Weldon: “I will remind my colleague I was the one who took 11 Members of Congress, including five from his side, to Vienna, and…”

On the recordOctober 16, 2003
I will remind my colleague I was the one who took 11 Members of Congress, including five from his side, to Vienna, and the reason was, we did not disagree with the actions against Milosevic. We felt we had not put enough pressure on Russia, and in going to Vienna, and my colleague can ask the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie), the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), and the gentleman can ask the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Corrine Brown), we wrote the plan that became the basis of the G-8 agreement to end the war. If we had brought Russia in earlier, we could have avoided much of that.
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W. Weldon
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Discussing U.S. diplomatic efforts regarding the conflict in the Balkans.

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