When I was younger and going to school, studying civics and trying to learn history, we were taught that foreign policy was something designed to protect the honor of the Nation and advance its legitimate national interests. Are we to believe in our day, Mr. Speaker, that national honor is a casualty of the times?
Opposing the admission of Communist China to the United Nations.
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Why should Congress not have some limitations on this? It is the taxpayers' money.
I cannot support this item unless there are some limitations on it, unless Congress can exercise its power over the purse, as the Constitution provides.
Doesn't this send a signal to the Iraqi people and to the American people that the United States intends to have a large permanent presence there?
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