H 5612 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 6, 1995

see it in all its majesty. Now today we

are introducing one for the Bureau of

Land Management.

The State of Utah has 22 million

acres—3.2 is considered fit and worthy

of wilderness. This bill is 1.8, which is

the most pristine of all this. It is the

jewel of our national parks, of which

we have five. This will be truly

untrammeled by man.

We are going to start the procedure

now. It will go through the subcommittee, the committee, and on the floor. I

hope the people of the United States,

the people of Utah, will realize what a

wonderful thing they are going to have,

in my opinion, as they see this area put

into a wilderness designation. I am

grateful for all the help we have had on

this particular bill.

AMERICA’S MILITARY ADVENTURES WASTE BILLIONS AND

fENDANGER OUR ARMED FORCES

(Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given

permission to address the House for 1

minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, the

American people are getting sick and

tired of our leaders taking this Nation

on military adventures around the

world and wasting billions in the process.

I am talking about spending billions

in Haiti, Rwanda, Somalia, and other

places, and now Bosnia. There is no

vital United States interest in Bosnia.

There is no threat to our security

there.

We should not send young American

men and women to fight in foreign

countries unless there is a definite and

strong U.S. interest in doing so or

there is a real threat to our national

security.

All Americans support sending some

humanitarian aid to help out when

international tragedies occur.

But, we cannot continue to try to

solve every world problem. We will

bankrupt our own Nation if we are not

careful. We certainly should not be getting into all sorts of international situations just so our Presidents can prove

they are world leaders or make names

for themselves in history.

We should be friends with any nation

that will let us, but we need to stop

trying to buy friendships.

We need to use more common sense,

Mr. Speaker, and stop letting people all

over this world take advantage of us

and especially of our very limited national resources.

THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION, AND HOW WE CAN BEST

fPROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES FOR

THE POOR

(Mr. GEKAS asked and was given

permission to address the House for 1

minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, in the next

few weeks this House will be the site of

a furious debate, as I predict, over the

future of legal services. As everyone

knows, the Legal Services Corporation,

as the hub of a network across the

country who provide, ostensibly, legal

services for the poor, has come under

fire over the years because of its adventurism, as some people see it, in political questions, in questions that have to

do with lobbying the establishment,

the political structure of our country,

rather than to look at how best we can

serve the poor in providing access to

the court systems.

There are those who want to zero out

Legal Services altogether. Others want

to expand its scope of services in our

country. Our committee and other

committees, both in the Senate and in

the House, will be looking at this very

closely to keep one thing in mind: that

if the original purposes of Legal Services is to be properly served itself, we

have to look at how best we can provide legal services for the poor, not all

the other kinds of adventurist concepts

that have seeped into the legal services

system in the recent past.

GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS

f(Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, as colleagues

return from what I hope was a productive work period, I also hope Members

got a little chance for a rest, too, because it is now time for this House to

get down to the business of reining in

specific Federal spending.

We have passed, as everybody knows,

the landmark budget blueprint for

reaching balance in our budget by the

year 2002. That was a big effort. Now

our committees are diving into the details, deciding where and how much to

cut, to ensure that we fulfill that the

problem of fiscal sanity does not go on

and become fiscal insanity for our children and their children’s children.

I am sure this is going to be very

hard. There are no easy decisions.

There are a lot of tough decisions

ahead, and probably some rude awakenings, too, but I think that is why we

are here. I think we have a moral obligation to get it done. The gripers and

whiners who have so long defended the

status quo believe they can actually

scare people into opposing our agenda

for balancing the budget.

Actually the status quo has brought

us a deteriorating quality of life in

America, and we all know it. As we

prove our good faith in making government smaller, more efficient, and more

accountable, the American people will

support out efforts, so say the people in

my district, and I think across the

country as well.

URGING COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT AMENDMENT TO ALLOW

BOSNIANS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES

(Mr. HOYER asked and was given

permission to address the House for 1

minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow

I will be offering an amendment to the

American Overseas Interests Act to lift

the arms embargo that has tied the

hands of the people of Bosnia for over

3 years in their efforts at self defense.

Last year, with bipartisan support,

the House voted overwhelmingly to lift

the arms embargo, yet one year later,

what has it brought the Bosnians?

Nothing other than more deaths. We

have seen time and time again

Bosnians say yes to peace, only to have

the aggressors, the Bosnian Serbs, say

‘‘No, only on our terms.’’ Time and

time again we have backed down from

our threats, only to allow the aggressors more time to kill and destroy a

nation recognized by the international

community.

Mr. Speaker, appeasement of aggression in Bosnia resonates throughout

the world. We cannot continue taking a

middle course in which we espouse

noble principles and yet tolerate their

continued violation.

At the funeral of two slain peacekeepers, France’s President Chirac declared, ad I quote, ‘‘We will not accept

the return of ethnic hatred and barbarism to the continent.’’ Yet, Mr.

Speaker, if we fail to assist the sovereign nation of Bosnia, then we shall

have facilitated their return.

I urge my colleagues to support this

amendment and allow the Bosnians to

exercise their right to defend themselves.

IRRESPONSIBLE AND DANGEROUS

REVERSAL ON BOAT PEOPLE:

f(Mr. BEREUTER asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute and to revise and extend

his remarks.)

Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, when

people’s lives and safety are involved

no one should take pleasure in saying,

‘‘I told you so’’, and I take no such

pleasure. But any Member who reads,

in an objective manner, this morning’s

Washington Times article about violence in the refugee camps should feel

some remorse for this body’s role in

the debacle currently unfolding in

Southeast Asia.

Let me briefly catalog the damage

wrought so far by section 2104 of H.R.

1561, the American Overseas Interests

Act and the rejection of my amendment to delete that section.

Two days of rioting by 3,000 boat people in refugee camps in Malaysia have

caused at least 13 injuries. Earlier riots

in Hong Kong’s camps caused more

than 200 injuries; of the 1,400 boat people in Thailand camps who had volunteered to return peacefully to Vietnam,