Kay Bailey Hutchison: “I want to talk about what my amendment does. It expresses the sense of Congress that the President and Congress should…”

“I want to talk about what my amendment does. It expresses the sense of Congress that the President and Congress should create the conditions for withdrawal of U.S. ground combat forces from the NATO-led stabilization force in Bosnia. What we are trying to do is lay the groundwork for an honorable exit. You know, every time we come up to a deadline that the President himself has set, he says we cannot just leave, it would be irresponsible to leave, it would throw everything into chaos. That is absolutely true. It would be irresponsible to leave right now. But why is that? Why would it be irresponsible to leave right now? It would be irresponsible to leave right now because we have not laid the groundwork for an honorable exit and the President has gone on without the authorization of Congress to say this is going to be an unending mission.”