PIML 96061403 / Forwarded to Patriot Information Mailing List: [A subscriber pointed out that a Mr. Dornan was listed as a co-sponsor of HR 3308.] PIML ================================================================== At 08:04 PM 6/13/96 -0400, you wrote: >Is "Mr. Dornan" Robert Dornan? as one who introduced this bill? How could >that be? I would guess that it would be; it looks like Dornan got suckered. So much of the proposed legislation looks good on the surface and has a reverse twist buried in the fine print. The bad part is: "(3) in view of the complexity of United Nations peace operations and the difficulty of achieving unity of command and expeditious decisionmaking, the United States should participate in such operations only when it is clearly in the national security interest to do so;" Apparently it is up to the President to decide "when it is clearly in the national security interest to do so" although a later section requires the President to explain his decision to Congress. The above paragraph should have added to the end "and when the House of Representatives has decided that it is clearly in the national security interest. Left unchanged, it grants new authority (of questionable constitutionality) that the President does not now have. I believe I will post this on PIML with a request for everyone to contact Dornan as well as their Congressman. Kill this bill - NO NEW POWERS FOR DICTATOR CLINTON! for Liberty, Bill ================================================================== * Patriot Information Mailing List * http://constitution.org/piml/piml.htm * A service to help inform those who have an active interest in * returning our federal and state governments to limited, * constitutional government * Send messages for consideration and possible posting to * butterb@sagenet.net (Bill Utterback). * To subscribe or unsubscribe, send message with subject line * "subscribe patriot" or "unsubscribe patriot" * Forwarded messages sent on this mailing list are NOT verified. * See World's Smallest Political Quiz: www.self-gov.org/quiz.html * Libertarian is to LIBERTY as librarian is to library (DePena) * PIML grants permission to copy and repost this message * in its entirety with headers and trailers left intact.