Both houses passed resolutions in favor of the U.N. supervised referendum in East Timor so that the people who lived in East Timor could vote. And that influenced the state department. The state department shifted in favor of the referendum and became a bit less militant pushing for aid to the Indonesian military. Callahan shifted a bit, following the state department line. So your hope in being here, I take it, is to develop a constituency in his district to communicate to Rep. Callahan.
Politicians listen to their constituents, but only if their constituents get organized.
You could hardly have a more clear case than the Indonesian military. They invaded East Timor in 1975 with U.S. approval. They killed a third of the population. They staged a massacre at the Santa Cruz cemetery in 1991, in which they used M16 rifles from the United States. You were present there.