On the recordAugust 3, 1995
The fear that the administration would not come back to the U.S. Senate for 'advise and consent' has required this Senator and others to take this action. We cannot sit here knowingly, allowing the administration to go forth with a demarcation which would, in our collective judgment, not be in the best interest of this country, and the only way we would have a means to express that would be through the advice-and-consent procedure. And the administration, very forthrightly, said they would not bring it back. And that is the reason we acted.
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