Floyd Spence: “Mr. Chairman, I will sum up. This whole question of Bosnia comes down to this. If we look at history, this thing first…”

“Mr. Chairman, I will sum up. This whole question of Bosnia comes down to this. If we look at history, this thing first got started, and our President said all along, on numerous occasions over a period of years, that we would put no ground troops in Bosnia. We were doing different things, as Members know, on and off in that effort. But he kept reiterating, we would not ever put ground troops in Bosnia. Then, of course, he did, along with the Dayton accord, so-called, the agreement was made that we would go and send ground troops along with NATO troops to Bosnia. That was back in 1996. He said at that time that we would be out in a year, and that year passed, and then the election came about and he transferred it on out another year, and said we would be out then, this time, in June of 1998. That is the date we are talking about in both of these amendments, as I was trying to say earlier. With the talk that we hear back and forth on both sides, the fact still remains we have two amendments to consider today. Both of them just hold the President to his own date to withdraw in June of 1998.”