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Excerpt from Department of Defense's Comprehensive Review of Indochina Pow/Mia Cases: Hearing Before the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held December 14, 1995
The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:35 a.m., in room 2118, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Robert K. Dornan (chairman of the Military Personnel Subcommittee) presiding.
Opening Statement Of Hon. Robert K. Dornan, A Representative From California, Chairman, Military Personnel Subcommittee
Mr. Dornan. The Military Personnel Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives, National Security Committee, will come to order.
I have some opening remarks, and then I will defer to my distinguished colleague from Virginia for any opening remarks.
I am sorry for the delay. It took me about 25 minutes to get up the ice in my Virginia driveway, so I will assume that others had problems who reside outside the beltway.
Senator Smith is in the anteroom, will be in - there he is right now.
Senator if you will take the witness chair there, I will begin my opening remarks while you get settled in.
Good fight on the Senate floor last night. And I have never lost a vote, and seen people act like it was a victory so much in all my life. But in the House of Representatives, with no leadership support whatsoever, and losing 12 subcommittee chairmen like myself, two major committee chairmen, and half of the leadership to come within four votes of cutting off all funding to this very peculiar operation on the ground in Bosnia - I support everything else, and it's a lot - was, I guess, a victory of some sort.
I don't know if you know. Senator, but I got 70 out of 73 freshmen to vote in my 210, and 20 Democrats, including those who are most concerned about blue collar families, who give us those handsome young men and women who wear the uniform. So it was a fascinating fight last night. The media doesn't know what to make of it.
This hearing is a continuation of the congressional oversight process to account for our servicemen still missing in Southeast Asia that I have initiated as chairman of this subcommittee.
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