On the recordSeptember 29, 1983
We were not elected to send our young people off to foreign lands as bargaining chips in a high stakes game with another branch of our Government. Politics is the art of compromise. War is not.
Robert C. Byrd: “We were not elected to send our young people off to foreign lands as bargaining chips in a high stakes game with another…”
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Opposing an agreement on applying the War Powers Resolution that would allow 18 more months of U.S. troop deployment.
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