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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 19, 1993
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Dole says Congress should have vote on Haiti
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said he hoped to set a pattern for congressional involvement in foreign policy by introducing a bill that would restrict President Clinton's authority to send troops to Haiti.
Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, praised Dole for "a very prudent move."
Dole he would offer an amendment to the 1994 defense spending bill that will require congressional authorization for the president to send troops to Haiti. Exceptions would be made if the president could certify that the situation was a threat to national interests.
Dole, interviewed Sunday on CBS "Face the Nation," said his bill could apply to the president's decision to dispatch U.S. warships to Haiti.
"There is going to be an effort on Congress to exert more authority," Dole said. "We hope there may be a pattern not only in Haiti but how we approach other nations — make the president come to Congress unless he
can certify certain things as he out-
lined in his United Nations speech.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Madeline Albright, was asked about Dole's bill Sunday during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." She said there was a need to "engage in a great dialogue with the American people" and garner bipartisan support for foreign policy.
Congress, Clinton carry on the struggle over troop control
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With Americans dead in Somalia and threatened in Haiti, an uneasy Congress is demanding that President Clinton give it a role in deciding where to put U.S. forces at risk.
The issue last week was about whether U.S. forces should remain in Somalia and to what end. This week's confrontation is about Haiti. Just over the horizon is Bosnia.
All three cases involve placing U.S. forces at risk in places with questionable relevance to U.S. vital interests.
Even some of the administration's strongest allies on Capitol Hill say Clinton has failed to make a strong case for what he wants to do in any of the three trouble spots.
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"I think the president and his team have had great difficulty in articulating foreign policy," said Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Another voice is that of George McGovern, who challenged presidential decision-making on the Vietnam War when he was a senator from South Dakota in the 1960s and 1970s.
McGovern said Clinton "almost created an invitation for alternative initiatives on foreign policy by being as ambivalent as he has been."
The former Democratic senator said that "when an administration is confident in what it is doing ordinarily it won't be challenged in the foreign poli-
Secretary of State Warren Christopher swiftly denounced a proposal by Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole that would require congressional approval to send U.S. troops to Haiti except for reasons of national security.
cv area."
He said it "would be a very serious setback for the United States as a whole if the president's authority under the Constitution to act promptly as commander in chief was eroded by Congress."
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said the frustration in Congress was less a policy issue and more "a lapse in dealing with the Congress."
Kerry cited the War Powers Act, Vietnam-era legislation requiring congressional approval for stationing U.S. troops in an area of hostilities for more than 60 days.
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