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Mark Warner: “I commend the Appropriations Committee for the language which is contained in their bill, but I would like to urge that…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 1997
I commend the Appropriations Committee for the language which is contained in their bill, but I would like to urge that this whole analysis be taken a step further. During the course of the confirmation hearings on General Shelton, I said that it is time for the United States to exercise the leadership to reconvene the principles, the very principles that laid down the Dayton accords, assess what has been done, what has to be done and, most significantly, the realistic chances of the balance being done.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Discussing U.S. leadership and the Dayton accords during a Senate floor speech.

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