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United Statesof America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 106th CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION

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SENATE—Thursday, February 24, 2000 The Senate met at 11:30 a.m. and was

called to order by the President pro tempore [Mr. THURMOND].

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. To-day’s prayer will be offered by our guest Chaplain, the Rev. Allen Fisher, Presbyterian Church, Fredericksburg, VA. We are pleased to have you with us.

PRAYER

The guest Chaplain, Rev. Allen Fish-er, offered the following prayer:

We rejoice to thank and praise You this day, O God our Maker, Creator of the ends of the universe. You are the source of every good and perfect gift, the Fount of every blessing, the Heart of every noble thought, every kind deed, or merciful act.

We thank You today for all those whom we rarely notice, people who share Your care, who reflect Your faithfulness. We thank You for the peo-ple who bus our tables, who haul our trash, who clean our offices, who drive our children, who deliver our mail, with little thought for the great issues of our age but with deep gratitude for the abiding gifts You give. For food and drink, heartbeat and breath, laugh-ter and tears, for covenants kept and promises lived in humility and service to others, we praise You, O God of steadfast love.

Remind us, faithful God, that we who lead may also serve after the example of one who came not to be served but to serve. Use the service of our lives and the work of this body for the build-ing up of the common good in this most blessed Nation. Speed us toward the day when ‘‘all Your works shall give thanks to You, O Lord, and all Your faithful shall bless You.’’ In the gracious name of the one, holy, right-eous, and eternal God, our Creator, Re-deemer, and Sustainer, we pray. Amen.

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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

The Honorable MIKE CRAPO, a Sen-ator from the State of Idaho, led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows:

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Repub-

lic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. GRAMS). The Senator from Kansas is recognized.

Mr. BROWNBACK. I thank the Chair.

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SCHEDULE

Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, today the Senate will immediately pro-ceed to a rollcall vote on final passage of H.R. 1883, the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 1999. Following the vote, the Senate will resume consideration of S. 1134, the education savings account leg-islation. It is hoped that an agreement regarding relevant amendments will be made in order to have a substantive de-bate on that tax legislation.

In addition, the Senate may consider other legislative or executive items available for action; therefore, Sen-ators can expect further votes this afternoon. As previously announced, there will be no votes on Friday. I thank my colleagues for their atten-tion.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-ator from Nevada.

Mr. REID. Mr. President, before the roll is called, I would like to make a comment.

Representative James Garfield, who later became President of the United States, in trying to get a bill through Congress, said in a letter to an adviser:

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted, we shall, I hope, be in a better temper to legislate.

I hope that we would all keep that in mind. We have congressional elections and we have a Presidential election up-coming. I hope we can work our way through to get to some of the issues we need to be talking about. I hope that the majority would allow us, if we are going to talk about education, to go to an education bill and offer amend-ments and work our way through the process. The fact that we are in the midst of Presidential primaries and congressional elections coming should not prevent us from going to the things we need to be doing. Education is cer-tainly one of them. I hope we could do

that in a full and fair debate on edu-cation.

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RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, leadership time is reserved.

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IRAN NONPROLIFERATION ACT OF 1999—Resumed

Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on the pas-sage of H.R. 1883.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays have been requested. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be.

The yeas and nays were ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The

question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.

The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read the third time.

Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I want to express my ardent support for pas-sage of the Iran Nonproliferation Act. It is very likely that this legislation will pass the Senate by a margin matching or nearing the unanimous 419 to 0 vote in the House of Representa-tives last September.

The importance of this legislation should not be lost amid the widespread acclamation with which it will be sent to the President. This bill is aimed at controlling the transfer or sale of tech-nology and expertise to Iran, especially from Russia, that will assist in its de-velopment of weapons of mass destruc-tion and missiles designed to deliver these weapons.

This is a very real, very well-docu-mented and very serious security con-cern for the United States and Israel, our nation’s most-trusted ally in the Middle East. The Central Intelligence Agency has reported Iran has the capa-bility to launch a missile that will reach Israel, and it is well known that Iran is pursuing development of nu-clear, chemical and biological weap-onry.

The Iran Nonproliferation Act pro-vides for biannual reports on who

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE1470 February 24, 2000 around the world is transferring pro-hibited technology or information to Iran, and allows the President to take action against persons or entities found to be engaged in such activity. This bill also includes new steps to en-sure the Russian Space Agency, which is a partner with NASA in the Inter-national Space Station project, is com-plying with Russia’s official Iran anti- proliferation policy.

Media reports on the Iran election, held only days ago, show an encour-aging shift in the attitudes of the Ira-nian people, a trend that we should ap-plaud and encourage. Unfortunately, the structure of the Iranian govern-ment and its police services may well frustrate the will of the Iranian people, and the quest of its armed forces for weapon and missile technology pro-ceeds apace. I look forward to the day on which Iran will be a good and peace-ful neighbor. That day may be closer, but it has not yet arrived.

This bill is a necessary step towards our goal of nonproliferation and cer-tainly merits a high level of bipartisan support, as well as the signature of President Clinton.

Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I rise to support the Iran Nonproliferation Act.

We are faced with an historic oppor-tunity to send a strong message to na-tions around the world—we will not sit by idle as goods, services or technology are transferred to Iran that contribute significantly to its ability to develop nuclear, chemical or biological weap-ons or ballistic or cruise missiles.

This legislation provides the Admin-istration with useful tools to combat the spread of dangerous weapons tech-nology and to discourage nuclear pro-liferation. It also enhances U.S. efforts to monitor Iranian proliferation.

This legislation demonstrates our commitment to prevent the prolifera-tion of dangerous nuclear weapons to countries that threaten our national security as well as the security of al-lies—such as Israel and Europe. The Middle East is of vital strategic impor-tance to the U.S.—and our interests and Israel’s security are threatened by the continuing build-up of advanced conventional weapons by ‘rogue re-gimes’ in the region. For this reason, U.S. support for Israel must go beyond economic and military aid to Israel—it must meet the very real challenges that will face Israel and the United States in this new century, such as limiting the threats of weapons of mass destruction. It is well documented that technology provided to Iran increases its ability to develop its own inter-mediate range ballistic missile that is capable of reaching Israel as well as our European allies. By limiting Iran’s access to such technology we can bet-ter protect these countries as well as our own troops in the Middle East and Europe.

The people of Iran demonstrated in their recent elections an overriding de-sire to move away from the extremism of the previous government toward re-form and moderation in the future— but it is too early to tell what this change will mean in practice. I hope that it is a sign that Iran will end its missile program and its support for international terrorism. But despite this positive step, the Iran Non-proliferation Act is still vital to com-bat the spread of dangerous weapons technology and, in particular, to mon-itor nuclear weapons proliferation to Iran.

This legislation also sends a strong message to Russia that U.S. aid and scientific collaboration will be limited if Russia doesn’t stop missile prolifera-tion to Iran. U.S. funding will be sub-stantially limited unless the President certifies that the Russian Space Agen-cy is not transferring technology to Iran.

As the ranking member of the VA– HUD subcommittee that funds the space program, I have been a strong supporter of the International Space Station. I supported Russia’s participa-tion in the space program for three rea-sons:

One, their technical expertise; Two, to build stronger links between

the United States and Russia; and Three, to ensure that Russian sci-

entists and engineers had civilian work—so they would not sell their skills to rogue governments.

Russia has failed to live up to its promises on the space station. I have no question of Russia’s technical com-petence. But I have strong concerns about its failure to meet its end of the bargain. Russia has not adequately funded its share of the space station, resulting in delays and a cloud of un-certainty that hovers over the entire program.

Even more troubling is Russia’s role in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Russia has exported tech-nology, material and expertise to help Iran develop ballistic missiles. These missiles could carry chemical, nuclear or biological weapons—which could reach any target within about 800 miles of Iran.

Russia’s former Prime Minister Chernomyrdin promised to end this as-sistance. We need to make sure the new Russian government fulfills this prom-ise. I recognize that Acting Russian President Vladmir Putin has been re-ceptive to restricting companies that sell missile technology and equipment to Iran. I hope his intentions are trans-lated into action. Otherwise, our co-operation with Russia—both in space and elsewhere—may end.

We live in a dangerous world—where terrorists and rogue nations are devel-oping the most repugnant weapons of mass destruction. Our action today will send a clear message to our allies

and to our adversaries. By coming to-gether to support this bipartisan legis-lation, we will demonstrate our unified commitment to limit nuclear prolifera-tion and to create a safer more stable world.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will now vote on passage of H.R. 1883.

The yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk will call the roll.

The legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the

Senator from Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN) is necessarily absent.

Mr. REID. I announce that the Sen-ator from Montana (Mr. BAUCUS) is necessarily absent.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber who desire to vote?

The result was announced—yeas 98, nays 0, as follows:

[Rollcall Vote No. 12 Leg.]

YEAS—98

Abraham Akaka Allard Ashcroft Bayh Bennett Biden Bingaman Bond Boxer Breaux Brownback Bryan Bunning Burns Byrd Campbell Chafee, L. Cleland Cochran Collins Conrad Coverdell Craig Crapo Daschle DeWine Dodd Domenici Dorgan Durbin Edwards Enzi

Feingold Feinstein Fitzgerald Frist Gorton Graham Gramm Grams Grassley Gregg Hagel Harkin Hatch Helms Hollings Hutchinson Hutchison Inhofe Inouye Jeffords Johnson Kennedy Kerrey Kerry Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lott

Lugar Mack McConnell Mikulski Moynihan Murkowski Murray Nickles Reed Reid Robb Roberts Rockefeller Roth Santorum Sarbanes Schumer Sessions Shelby Smith (NH) Smith (OR) Snowe Specter Stevens Thomas Thompson Thurmond Torricelli Voinovich Warner Wellstone Wyden

NOT VOTING—2

Baucus McCain

The bill (H.R. 1883), as amended, was passed.

Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote, and I move to lay that motion on the table.

The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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EXECUTIVE SESSION

UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT

Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unan-imous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session for the consider-ation of Executive Calendar No. 407, Kermit Bye to be a United States Cir-cuit Judge, and further, that a vote occur on the nomination, immediately

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE 1471 February 24, 2000 to be followed by a vote on Calendar No. 409, George Daniels to be a United States District Judge, and following those back-to-back votes, the Presi-dent be notified of the Senate’s action and the Senate then resume legislative session.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unan-imous consent that it be in order for me to ask for the yeas and nays en bloc on these confirmations.


Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I know there are a number of Senators who wish to speak in morning business. After we have this en bloc vote, we will put in a time for morning business. I see Senator SPECTER, and Senator STE-VENS wants to speak, and probably Sen-ators on the other side do. We will put in probably an hour, from 12:30 until approximately 1:30, so Senators can speak on a number of subjects.

Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, if the majority leader will yield, after the votes on the judges, may it be in order that Chairman HATCH and I be recog-nized for a couple minutes on the nomi-nations that had been voted on?

Mr. LOTT. Is Senator HATCH here? Mr. LEAHY. I was asking for myself,

but I thought as a matter of courtesy I should include the chairman.

Mr. LOTT. I think that is a reason-able request. We need to have the vote as soon as we can. Senators are pre-pared to vote.

Mr. President, I amend my request and ask unanimous consent that we have 2 minutes for the chairman and 2 minutes for the ranking member fol-lowing votes. I note that Senator INHOFE will probably have some com-ments on these nominations, and he in-dicated he would make those after the vote.


Mr. REID. Mr. President, if the lead-er will yield, is the leader agreeable to extending morning business until 2 o’clock?

Mr. LOTT. Absolutely. I have no problem with that.

Mr. REID. I thank the majority lead-er.

Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on the nominations.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?

There is a sufficient second. The yeas and nays were ordered.

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NOMINATION OF KERMIT BYE, OF NORTH DAKOTA, TO BE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The nomination will be stated.

The assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Kermit Bye, of

North Dakota, to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit.

Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, I rise today to recommend the confirmation of Kermit Bye for the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and I ask my col-leagues to join me and Senator DORGAN in supporting his nomination.

Kermit Bye is a native North Dako-tan. He was born in the middle of a North Dakota blizzard, in a railroad section house in Hatton, North Dakota. He has distinguished himself in his ca-reer, and is widely recognized as one of the best trial lawyers in our state. Kermit Bye will be an excellent addi-tion to the federal judiciary, and he has my strong support.

Kermit Bye would bring a wide range of experiences to the bench. Before re-ceiving his law degree from the Univer-sity of North Dakota in 1962, he worked as a milk truck driver, a radio adver-tising salesman, and in catalog sales at Montgomery Wards.

Soon after completing law school, Mr. Bye worked as North Dakota Dep-uty Securities Commissioner, and later served as Assistant United States At-torney for the District of North Da-kota.

Since 1968, Mr. Bye has worked for the Vogel Law Firm and was named President of the firm in 1981. Mr. Bye has over 30 years of experience in Fed-eral and state trial and appellate liti-gation. His long and distinguished ca-reer includes representing individual and corporate clients. He has tried more than 100 cases, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. He has also argued numerous appeals, including more than 20 before the Eighth Circuit. Mr. Bye has served on the Board of Governors and as the President of the State Bar Association of North Da-kota.

Through his broad experience and success he has earned an excellent rep-utation. As an experienced litigator, Mr. Bye also has a full understanding of the appropriate role of the judiciary.

My colleague, Senator DORGAN, and I have heard from individuals across our home state, from both sides of the aisle and from all sections of the legal com-munity, recommending Mr. Bye for this position. According to his col-leagues and fellow bar members, Mr. Bye is a man of great character and qualifications.

One of his supporters is Judge Frank Magill, who Mr. Bye has been nomi-nated to succeed on the Eighth Circuit. Judge Magill has been on senior status since April 1, 1997, and was appointed to the Eighth Circuit by President Reagan in 1986. He states in a letter to Senator HATCH: ‘‘I have had a longtime professional association with Kermit Bye. His professional competence and integrity are of the highest order. He has several decades of trial experience. I know from personal experiences that he will be an easy fit for your criterion of judicial temperament.’’

Mr. President, I am confident that Mr. Bye will be an outstanding addi-tion to the federal bench. I support his confirmation and yield the floor.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Kermit Bye, of North Dakota, to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit? On this question, the yeas and nays have been ordered, and the clerk will call the roll.

The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.

Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN) is necessarily absent.

Mr. REID. I announce that the Sen-ator from Montana (Mr. BAUCUS) is necessarily absent.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber de-siring to vote?

The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 98, nays 0, as follows:

[Rollcall Vote No. 13 Ex.] YEAS—98




NOT VOTING—2

Baucus McCain

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NOMINATION OF GEORGE B. DAN-IELS, OF NEW YORK, TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE SOUTHERN DIS-TRICT OF NEW YORK

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will now report the second nomi-nation.

The legislative clerk read the nomi-nation of George B. Daniels, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of George B.

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE1472 February 24, 2000 Daniels, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York? On this question, the yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk will call the roll.

The legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the

Senator from Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN), is necessarily absent.

Mr. REID. I announce that the Sen-ator from Montana (Mr. BAUCUS), is necessarily absent.

The result was announced, yeas 98, nays 0, as follows:

The result was announced—yeas 98, nays 0, as follows:

[Rollcall Vote No. 14 Ex.] YEAS—98




NOT VOTING—2

Baucus McCain

The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr.

BUNNING). Under the previous order, the Senator from Vermont is recog-nized for 2 minutes.

Mr. MOYNIHAN addressed the Chair. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-

ator from New York. Mr. MOYNIHAN. I ask unanimous

consent to speak for 20 seconds in ad-vance of the Senator from Vermont.


Mr. MOYNIHAN. Mr. President, I rise to express great appreciation on my part to my revered friend and col-league, Senator SCHUMER, and to Sen-ator LEAHY, Chairman HATCH, Senator LOTT, Senator DASCHLE, and all Sen-ators for their vote confirming the nomination of Judge Daniels unani-mously. It is much appreciated. I as-sure you, he will perform a service to the Republic for many years ahead.

I yield the floor. Mr. SCHUMER addressed the Chair. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-

ator from New York.

Mr. SCHUMER. I ask unanimous con-sent to address the body for 30 seconds.


Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I join in the thanks given by my esteemed, wise, senior colleague, Senator MOY-NIHAN, to Senators LOTT, HATCH, and LEAHY. This is an outstanding jurist who will make us all proud. I thank the Senate for confirming him.

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LEGISLATIVE SESSION

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will now return to legislative session.

Mr. LOTT addressed the Chair. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma-

jority leader. Mr. LOTT. If the Senator from

Vermont will withhold briefly, I would like to go ahead and make this request. I believe we have a leadership Senator here.

I would like to first ask, what is the pending question?

The PRESIDING OFFICER. We are in morning business until 2 o’clock.

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AFFORDABLE EDUCATION ACT OF 1999—Resumed

Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I believe we did not actually get morning busi-ness put in place. But I ask unanimous consent the clerk report the bill on education savings loans.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the bill by title.

The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 1134) to amend the Internal Rev-

enue Code of 1986 to allow tax-free expendi-tures from education individual retirement accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses, to increase the maximum annual amount of contributions to such ac-counts, and for other purposes.

Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, before I put forward this request, we have been working to develop an agreement as to how to proceed on this legislation. I think we are close to getting that done, but we may still need a little more time to work on it. In that effort, I ask unanimous consent that all amendments be relevant to the subject matter of education and/or education- related taxes.

Mr. REID addressed the Chair. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-

ator from Nevada. Mr. REID. Reserving the right to ob-

ject, I say to the leader, we appreciated very much the minority having the op-portunity yesterday to speak about education. We believe this is a time we should be talking about education; it is that important to the American peo-ple. But this is the first amendable ve-hicle we have had this session. I re-spectfully suggest to the majority, on behalf of the minority let’s have the opportunity to have a vehicle we can amend.

We hope that very shortly the major-ity will understand we are trying to move education along. We have no great plan in mind to move off edu-cation into some other area. But we would like to do that. If the leader be-lieves that cannot be done, we are will-ing to continue working to see if we can come up with some reasonable ef-fort to move forward on this legisla-tion.

Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I under-stand there will be an objection.

Mr. REID. I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec-

tion is heard. Mr. LOTT. We will continue to work

to get an agreement developed. Cer-tainly amendments on education or education-related taxes would be some-thing we would want to have and with which we would have no problem. We were hoping it would not run far afield to all kinds of unrelated issues that would delay a bill that has over-whelming support.

The support for this idea of being able to save a little for your own chil-dren’s education—up to $2,000 per year per child, kindergarten through the 12th grade—has a lot of support, espe-cially when you realize we can do it for our children’s college education but not for our children’s needs in the 4th grade. I hope we can work it out. I think maybe we can. We will keep working on that.

I now ask unanimous consent, after Senator LEAHY has spoken, the Senate proceed to a period of morning busi-ness, with the first 8 minutes under the control of Senator THURMOND, the suc-ceeding 30 minutes under the control of Senators TORRICELLI and SPECTER, the succeeding 10 minutes under the con-trol of Senator CAMPBELL, the fol-lowing hour under the control of Sen-ators CLELAND and ROBERTS, and fol-lowing that time the Senate resume consideration of the pending legisla-tion and I be immediately recognized.


Mr. LOTT. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-

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NOMINATIONS

Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I am very pleased the Senate voted 98–0 on Kermit Bye to be United States Circuit Court Judge for the Eighth Circuit and Justice George Daniels to be United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Kermit Bye is an outstanding attor-ney from North Dakota. I will put his full record in the RECORD later. Justice Daniels is a distinguished New Yorker, with the strong support of the two dis-tinguished Senators from New York— Senators MOYNIHAN and SCHUMER—in the same way Kermit Bye had the strong support of the two distinguished


CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE 1473 February 24, 2000 Senators from North Dakota—Senators CONRAD and DORGAN.

I wish to thank both the Republican leader and the Democratic leader for helping us get these nominations up. They had been reported last year. For some inexplicable reason, they were held up. We see that the Senate, in vot-ing on them, has voted 98–0. I mention this because many times we have judges, who are judicial nominations, where it takes a long time to get their nominations to the floor, and then they are passed by overwhelming mar-gins. Out of a sense of justice towards the people we are putting on our Fed-eral courts, we, the Senate, should do a better job.

Many wait too long. The most promi-nent current examples of that treat-ment are Judge Richard Paez and Mar-sha Berzon. We have waited too long to vote on them. I understand, finally, after 4 years, we are going to vote on Judge Paez, who has one of the most distinguished records anybody has ever had who has come before the Senate. He is strongly supported by law en-forcement, strongly supported by the bar, strongly supported by the Hispanic community. He is certainly proud of his Hispanic background, as well he should be. He has accomplished more than most people accomplish of any background. I hope that after 4 years he will be voted on.

Finally, I had hoped we would reach a vote on Timothy Dyk today. He was first nominated to a vacancy in the Federal Circuit in April of 1998. For anybody who is keeping track, that was well in the last century. After hav-ing a hearing and being reported favor-ably by the Judiciary Committee to the Senate in September of 1998, his nomination was left on the Senate cal-endar without action and then re-turned to the President 2 years ago as the 105th Congress adjourned. He was renominated in January 1999 and re-ported favorably in October 1999.

So he has been waiting for all these years. He has clerked for three Su-preme Court Justices, including the Chief Justice. He has a remarkably dis-tinguished career. He has represented people across the spectrum, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which strongly backs him. I hope we can get him confirmed this week or next. They need him on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. He is one of the most quali-fied people we have ever seen. We should do it.

Mr. Dyk has distinguished himself with a long career of private practice in the District of Columbia. From 1964 to 1990, he worked with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering as an associate and then as a partner. Since 1990, he has been with Jones Day Reavis & Pogue as a partner and Chair of its Issues and Ap-peals Section.

Mr. Dyk received his undergraduate degree in 1958 from Harvard College,

and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1961. Following law school, he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Jus-tices Reed, Burton, and Chief Justice Warren. Mr. Dyk was also a Special As-sistant to the Assistant Attorney Gen-eral in the Tax Division. His has been a distinguished career in which he has represented a wide array of clients, in-cluding the United States Chamber of Commerce. I look forward to the con-firmation vote on this highly-qualified nominee.

Kermit Bye is an outstanding attor-ney from North Dakota. From 1962 to 1966, Mr. Bye was the Deputy Securi-ties Commissioner and Special Assist-ant Attorney General for the State of North Dakota. And from 1966 to 1968, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of North Dakota. Since 1968, he has been a member and partner with the Fargo law firm of Votel, Kelly, Knutson, Weir, Bye & Hunke, Ltd. Mr. Bye received his undergraduate degree in 1959 from the University of North Dakota, and his law degree from the University of North Dakota Law School in 1962.

Mr. Bye’s nomination is another of those that was favorably reported last year by the Judiciary Committee but which was not acted upon by the Sen-ate. He is strongly supported by Sen-ator DORGAN and Senator CONRAD, who are to be commended for their efforts on his behalf and on behalf of the peo-ple of North Dakota that has finally brought us to this day.

Justice George Daniels is a distin-guished New Yorker. He has distin-guished himself with a long career of service in the New York federal and state court systems. He was an Assist-ant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern Dis-trict of New York from 1983 to 1989. From 1989 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1995, he was a Judge in the Criminal Court of the City of New York. And from 1990 to 1993, he was a counsel to the Mayor of the City of New York. Since 1995, Mr. Daniels has been a Jus-tice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.

Justice Daniels received his under-graduate degree in 1975 from Yale Uni-versity, and his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1978.

He has the strong support of Senator MOYNIHAN and Senator SCHUMER and the ABA has given him its highest rat-ing. Although he was reported favor-ably by the Judiciary Committee last year, his was one of the nominations not acted upon by the Senate. I con-gratulate the Senators from New York and Justice Daniels and his family on his consideration today.

I thank the majority leader and com-mend the Democratic leader for sched-uling the consideration of these judi-cial nominations. The debate on judi-cial nominations over the last couple of years has included too much delay with respect to too many nominations.

The most prominent current exam-ples of that treatment are Judge Rich-ard Paez and Marsha Berzon. With re-spect to these nominations, the Senate has for too long refused to do its con-stitutional duty and vote. I am grate-ful that the majority leader agreed last year to bring each of those nomina-tions to a Senate vote before March 15. Nominees deserve to be treated with dignity and dispatch—not delayed for two or three or four years. The nomi-nation of Judge Paez has now been pending for over four years. He has the strong support of his home State Sen-ators and of local law enforcement.

His has been a distinguished career in which he has served as a state and fed-eral judge for what is now approaching 19 years. His story is a wonderful American story of hard work, fairness and public service. He and his family have much of which to be proud. His-panic organizations from California and around the country have urged the Senate to act favorably on his nomina-tion without further delay.

Within the next two weeks the Sen-ate will be called upon to vote on this outstanding nomination, and I trust that we will do the right thing. I recall when Judge Sonia Sotomayor, another outstanding District Court Judge, was nominated to the Second Circuit and her nomination was delayed. Report-edly, she was so well qualified that some feared her quick confirmation might have led her to be considered as a possible Supreme Court nomination and that was why Senate consideration of her nomination was delayed through secret holds. Ultimately, she was con-firmed to the Second Circuit.

After all the delay in that case, I was struck that not a single Senator who voted against her confirmation and not a single Senator who had acted to delay its consideration uttered a single word to justify such opposition.

Of course it is every Senator’s right to vote as he or she sees fit on all mat-ters. But I would hope that in the case of Judge Richard Paez, where his nomi-nation has been delayed for over four years, for the longest period in the his-tory of the Senate, those who have op-posed him will show him the courtesy of using this time to discuss with us any concerns that may have and to ex-plain the basis for any negative vote against a person so well qualified for the position to which he has been nom-inated by the President.

Mr. DORGAN. Will the Senator yield?

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-ator’s time has expired.

Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senator be rec-ognized for an additional 30 seconds.


Mr. LEAHY. I yield to the Senator. Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I am so

pleased that the Senate has confirmed


CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE1474 February 24, 2000 Kermit Bye’s nomination to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Kermit Bye is one of North Dakota’s most distinguished and respected at-torneys, and a senior partner in one of the top law firms in the Midwest. He has nearly 40 years of trial and appel-late experience, he was President of the North Dakota Bar Association, and he’s received the North Dakota State Bar Association’s Distinguished Serv-ice Award.

I won’t name every civic and commu-nity organization that Kermit Bye has chaired and served on, because the list is too long. Instead, I will say Kermit Bye cares deeply about the law and about the people our laws protect.

He is a man of impeccable integrity and sound judgment, possessing a for-midable intellect and a healthy dose of North Dakota common sense. Kermit is temperamentally very well-suited for the bench, and can be counted on as a fair-minded jurist who understands the importance of the rule of law to soci-ety, and the judiciary’s proper role within our constitutional system.

As many will recall, this seat on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals was first vacated in April 1997, and my fel-low North Dakotan John Kelly was nominated and confirmed to this seat last summer. Tragically, just a few weeks after taking his oath, Judge Kelly took ill and passed away.

I am pleased today that Kermit Bye has been confirmed to fill this vacancy so that our Federal judiciary can ben-efit from his wisdom and judgment.

Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise to commend the majority leader, Senator LOTT, for proceeding today with votes for these judicial nominees. As I have stated, we will continue to process the confirmations of nominees who are qualified to be federal judges. In that respect, the Senate Judiciary Com-mittee held its first nominations hear-ing of this Session on Tuesday, Feb-ruary 22, and I expect to see more judi-cial nominees moving through the process in the coming months. There is a perception held by some that the con-firmation of judges stops in election years. This perception is inaccurate, and I intend to move qualified nomi-nees through the process during this session of Congress.

That said, in moving forward with the confirmations of judicial nominees, we must be mindful of problems we have with certain courts, particularly the Ninth Circuit. It was reported yes-terday that the Ninth Circuit has a record of 0–6 this supreme court term. In addition, the President must be mindful of the problems he creates when he nominates individuals who do not have the support of their home- State Senators. In this regard, I must say that it appears at times as if the President is seeking a confrontation with the Senate on this issue, instead of working with the Senate to see that his nominees are confirmed.

During this Congress, despite par-tisan rhetoric, the Judiciary Com-mittee has reported 42 judicial nomi-nees, and the full Senate has confirmed 36 of these—a number comparable to the average of 39 confirmations for the first sessions of the past five Con-gresses when vacancy rates were gen-erally much higher. In total, the Sen-ate has confirmed 340 of President Clin-ton’s judicial nominees since he took office in 1993.

I am disturbed by some of the allega-tions that have been made that the Senate’s treatment of certain nominees differed based on their race or gender. Such allegations are entirely without merit. For noncontroversial nominees who were confirmed in 1997 and 1998, there is little if any difference between the timing of confirmation for minor-ity nominees and non-minority nomi-nees. Only when the President appoints a controversial female or minority nominee does a disparity arise. More-over, last session, over 50% of the nominees that the Judiciary Com-mittee reported to the full Senate were women and minorities. Even the former Democratic chairman of the Ju-diciary Committee, Senator JOE BIDEN, stated publicly that the process by which the committee, under my chair-manship, examines and approves judi-cial nominees ‘‘has not a single thing to do with gender or race.’’ That is from the transcript of a Judiciary Committee hearing on judicial nomina-tions on November 10, 1999.

The Senate has conducted the con-firmations process in a fair and prin-cipled manner, and the process has worked well. The Federal Judiciary is sufficiently staffed to perform its func-tion under article III of the Constitu-tion. Senator LOTT, and the Senate as a whole, are to be commended.

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MORNING BUSINESS The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-

ator’s time has expired. Under the previous order, the Senate

will now proceed to a period of morning business. The Senator from South Carolina is recognized.

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VOLUNTARY CONFESSIONS LAW Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I

rise to discuss my concern regarding recent developments in the Dickerson case concerning voluntary confessions. Opponents are using some extreme tac-tics to encourage the Supreme Court to strike down this law.

For years, members of the Senate Ju-diciary Committee, including myself, encouraged the Clinton Justice Depart-ment to enforce 18 U.S.C. 3501, the law on voluntary confessions. In the Dickerson case, the Department re-fused to permit career federal prosecu-tors to rely on the law in their efforts to make sure a serial bank robber did not get away.

When the Supreme Court was decid-ing whether to hear the case, the De-partment had the opportunity to de-fend the statute, as many of us encour-aged it to do. While making its deci-sion, the Department consulted with certain federal law enforcement agen-cies. The Drug Enforcement Adminis-tration explained that Miranda in its current form is problematic in some circumstances and encouraged the De-partment to defend the law.

The Department later wrote in its brief about the views of federal law en-forcement in this matter, but that sup-port for the statute and reservation about Miranda is nowhere to be found. Instead, the brief states ‘‘federal law enforcement agencies have concluded that the Miranda decision itself gen-erally does not hinder their investiga-tions and the issuance of Miranda warnings at the outset of custodial in-terrogation is in the best interests of law enforcement as well as the sus-pect.’’ The brief should recognize that there is disagreement among federal law enforcement agencies about the impact of the Miranda warnings in in-vestigations and the need for reform of the Miranda requirements. The Depart-ment should not generalize in a brief before the Supreme Court to the point of misrepresentation. Senator HATCH and I sent a letter to Attorney General Reno and Solicitor General Waxman last week asking for an explanation in this matter, and I look forward to their response.

One of the amicus briefs, which was filed by the House Democratic leader-ship, takes a very novel approach to-ward the statute. It seems to suggest that the voluntary confessions law is not really a law after all. It states that the ‘‘Congress enacted section 3501 largely for symbolic purposes, to make an election year statement in 1968 about law and order, not to mount a challenge to Miranda.’’

This statement is not only inac-curate. It is completely inappropriate.

I was in the Senate when the vol-untary confessions law was debated and passed over 30 years ago. A bipar-tisan majority of the Congress sup-ported this law, and Democrats were in the majority at the time.

We did not enact the law to make some vague statement about crime. We passed the voluntary confessions law because we were extremely concerned about the excesses of the Miranda deci-sion allowing an unknown number of defendants who voluntarily confessed their crimes to go free on a techni-cality. We passed it to be enforced.

For the House Democratic leadership brief to state that the Congress did not intend for a law that it passed to be en-forced trivializes the legislative branch at the expense of the executive. It is a dangerous mistake for the legislative branch to defer to the executive re-garding what laws to enforce.


CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE 1475 February 24, 2000 The executive branch has a constitu-

tional duty to enforce the laws, unless they are clearly unconstitutional. Con-trary to what is happening today, the executive branch is not free to ignore acts of Congress simply because it does not support them, and the legislative branch should not support this ap-proach.

In this matter, the Justice Depart-ment has refused to abide by its duty to faithfully execute the laws, and has instead chosen to side with criminals and defense attorneys over prosecutors and law enforcement. It is unfortunate that, in this case, the Department will be making arguments on behalf of criminals before the Supreme Court. No arguments about the law will change this sad fact.

I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-

ator from Pennsylvania. (The remarks of Mr. SPECTER and Mr.

TORRICELLI pertaining to the introduc-tion of S. 2089 are printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Statements on Intro-duced Bills and Joint Resolutions.’’)

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen-ator from Colorado.

Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent I be allowed to speak for 8 minutes as in morning busi-ness for the introduction of a bill.


(The remarks of Mr. CAMPBELL per-taining to the introduction of S. 2090 are located in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.’’)

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. VOINOVICH). The Senator from Georgia.

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U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Mr. CLELAND. Mr. President, it is an honor to be here today with my dis-tinguished colleague from Kansas, Sen-ator PAT ROBERTS. We want to insti-tute a process by which this body can increasingly come to grips with some of the challenges that persist in our foreign policy and continue to be, in terms of our defense, a challenge to us and to the young men and women of America.

It is an opportunity for us to con-tinue our dialog which we started in the Armed Services Committee over the last 3 years as we have encountered difficulties in the Middle East, south-west Asia, and as we see problems around the world. He and I have more and more come to an understanding that we have more in common than we do in disagreement.

One of the things we have in common is that we asked some very important pertinent questions about our foreign policy and our defense as we go into the 21st century. We are delighted today to kick off, not so much a debate on American foreign policy but a dia-log which we hope will develop a con-

sensus of some basic first principles by which we ought to engage the world.

We have the post-cold-war world, as it is called. I was with Madeleine Albright today, our distinguished Sec-retary of State, and she said it is prob-ably not the post anything; it is just a new era. We have gone through the cold war and the terrors of that period, but we are certainly in a new era, and it does not even really have a name.

We hope to provide for our colleagues in the Senate—and we hope they will join us—over the course of this year, an understanding of key national secu-rity issues and begin building the building blocks of a bipartisan con-sensus on the most appropriate prior-ities and approaches for our country in today’s international environment.

In launching this endeavor, I am very mindful of both the enormity of the un-dertaking and of my own limitations in addressing such a subject. Having been only 3 years, beginning my fourth year in the Senate, I certainly do not claim to have a solution to these problems about which we are going to talk, but I hope to ask some pertinent questions.

American foreign policy is chal-lenged because of the end of the cold war, and Senator ROBERTS and I ap-proach these questions on the road to the future with great humility and cer-tainly with far more questions of our own than answers. Yet I believe this di-alog is one the Senate must have. We owe it to the other nations of the world, including those that look to America for leadership, as well as those that make themselves our competitors, and certainly we owe it to those that make us their adversaries. Even more, we owe it to those who serve our coun-try in the Armed Forces and in the Foreign Service, whose careers and sometimes very lives can be at stake. Perhaps most of all, we owe it to our children and our grandchildren.

I was with Senator Nunn last night at the State Department. He was being honored by the State Department. I al-ways learn something from him when-ever I am with him. We were talking about a particular country, a par-ticular challenge in American foreign policy. He said: Yes, what happens there will affect our children and our grandchildren.

It is astounding that the con-sequences of the decisions we make today will, indeed, affect future gen-erations, so we must make these deci-sions wisely.

Uncertainty, disunity, partisanship, and overstatesmanship will not serve this country well. We need to seriously consider what our global role in the 21st century is and what it should be. That decision will affect future genera-tions more than we can possibly under-stand.

One more point: I do believe a mean-ingful, bipartisan dialog on the U.S. role, which many believe is vital to our

national interest, is also imminently doable even in this election year. While the subject matter is very important to our country and our future, it is not an issue of great use on the campaign trail. This great body is the place to discuss these great and momentous issues where we can lay it all out and talk about it in a way that does not impinge on anybody’s particular par-tisan views. Simply put, neither the Presidential race nor the elections for the Congress will be determined by who has the partisan upper hand on foreign policy.

Over the course of the year, Senator ROBERTS and I—and we hope a number of other Senators—will be engaging in a series of floor dialogs relating to the general direction of U.S. foreign policy and national security policy in the 21st century.

We have actually chosen to sit to-gether. We are on different sides of the aisle, but we chose to come from our back-bench positions to show that we stand actually shoulder to shoulder in this regard. We are all Americans, and we hope we can do something good for our country.

Our current game plan is to begin today by considering frameworks for the U.S. global role with respect to pri-orities and approaches. In the weeks to come, this will be followed by sessions on U.S. national interests. Of course, the first question about American en-gagement in the world should be: Is it in our vital strategic national interest? That is question No. 1. The next session will be on U.S. national interests, what are they.

Another phase of our discussion will be the use of our military forces. Quite frankly, this should be question No. 2 because if we do not have a military objective following America’s strategic vital interests, why commit the mili-tary?

Next is we want to engage the ques-tion of our relationship with multilat-eral organizations. We realize the United States is the world’s foremost military and economic power, but that does not necessarily mean we can go it on our own everywhere. The issue of multilateral organizations and our re-lationship to them is an important one.

After multilateral organizations is the foreign policy roles of the execu-tive and legislative branches. One of the first things that came to my atten-tion when I came to the Senate 3 years ago was something called the U.S. Con-stitution. Senator BYRD was kind enough to give me an autographed copy of the U.S. Constitution and the Dec-laration of Independence, which I proudly carry with me. Quite frankly, if you read the Constitution carefully, it gives the Congress the power to de-clare war, to raise and support armies, and to provide and maintain a navy. That is a responsibility we have, along with a unique role in the Senate of ad-vising and consenting, particularly on


CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE1476 February 24, 2000 treaties into which the executive branch may enter.

The executive and legislative branches have to work together for for-eign policy and defense policy in this country to actually work.

Next is economics and trade. One can hardly separate economics from de-fense issues anymore. Economics and trade are absolutely mixed up with our foreign policy and defense issues. Arms control is certainly an issue we need to confront.

Then there will be a final wrapup at the end of the year, probably in Sep-tember.

However, this is just a preliminary outline, and we want these discussions to be flexible enough to go wherever the dialog takes us—that is the beauty of the Senate—and to include a wide array of viewpoints and illustrative subjects.

We encourage all our colleagues, of whatever mind on the topics under con-sideration, to join in so we can have a real debate in this Chamber, one in which we, indeed, ask each other hard questions, not in order to score par-tisan points and not in a particularly prearranged set of choreographed re-sponses between like-minded individ-uals but to seek a better understanding of each other’s thoughts.

That is exactly what we are after. We have determined that we will not tie this dialog, this debate, to any par-ticular administration, any particular issue, any particular commitment, any particular budget item, any particular legislative proposal. We hope for a free-wheeling dialog that we think can ben-efit the country.

What we are hoping for is not to find final answers, for surely that would probably be too ambitious an objective, but, rather, to bring this body, which has a key constitutional role in the conduct of American foreign and na-tional security policy, to the same kind of serious examination of our for-eign policy goals and assumptions as is now underway among many of our leading foreign policy experts.

I was thinking about this dialog today. I was thinking, how does this di-alog differ from what might be termed, shall we say, an ‘‘academic under-taking’’? There are many seminars. There are thousands of courses on American foreign policy. There are nu-merous reviews of our defense strategy going on in this country and around the world.

What makes this different? I think what makes this dialog different is that we are the ones who ultimately have to make the decision. This is not an academic exercise. I can remember voting for NATO expansion. It was an incredible experience for me to know that by the raising of my hand I could extend the security of NATO to three nations on the face of the globe that did not have that security before. That was an incredible experience for me.

So we do not participate just in some academic exercise here. We are the leaders. We are the ones who have to ultimately bite the bullet and make the decisions. Therefore, we need to think these things through. That is the point.

One of my favorite lines from Clause-witz, the great German theoretician on war, is: The leader must know the last step he is going to take before he takes the first step. That is the spirit of these discussions. At some point, and in some fashion, a bipartisan consensus on America’s global role must emerge because our national interest demands it. It may not be as pure as in World War II when Senator Vandenberg said: Politics stops at the water’s edge, but certainly at some point statecraft should overtake politics.

If these dialogs can assist that effort, in even a small way, they will be time well spent. We hope our discussions will not be tinged with particularly partisan or highly personalized consid-erations because the subject matter clearly transcends the policies and views of any one individual or cer-tainly any one administration. The challenges will be the same, no matter which party controls the White House next year or which party controls the Congress.

With that, I yield to my good and dis-tinguished friend and colleague, the Senator from Kansas. Let me say, in the time I have been in the Senate, I have found him to be a great source of reason and thoughtful pronouncements on national security matters. He has a marvelous sense of humor, which will come out whether we want it to or not in the dialogs. It is my pleasure to turn the discussion over to my distinguished friend and colleague, the great Senator from Kansas, Mr. PAT ROBERTS.

Mr. ROBERTS. First, Mr. President, I thank my good friend, the distin-guished Senator from Georgia, for the opportunity to join together in what we both hope will be a successful en-deavor.

As Senator CLELAND stated, our ob-jective is to try to achieve greater at-tention, focus, and mutual under-standing in this body on America’s global role and our vital national secu-rity interests and, if possible, begin a process of building a bipartisan con-sensus on what America’s role should be in today’s ever-changing, unsafe, and very unpredictable world.

At the outset, I share Senator CLELAND’s sense of personal limitation in addressing this topic. As he has said, even the finest minds and most expert American foreign policymakers have had considerable difficulty in defining both what role the United States should play in the so-called ‘‘New World Disorder’’ or reaching a con-sensus on what criteria to use in defin-ing our vital national interests.

Now having said that, I do not know of another Senator better suited to this

effort than MAX CLELAND. He brings to this exchange of ideas an outstanding record of public service, of personal sacrifice, and of courage and commit-ment. On the Senate Armed Services Committee, he has demonstrated ex-pertise and a whole lot of common sense in addressing the quality of life issues so important to our men and women in uniform and, in turn, to our national security.

As members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, we both share a keen interest in foreign policy and na-tional security. In my own case, I was privileged to serve as a member of the 1996 Commission on America’s National Interests. It was chaired by Ambas-sador Robert Ellsworth, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, and Rita Hauser, and was sponsored by the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, the Nixon Center for Peace and Free-dom, and the RAND Corporation. The Commission was composed of 15 mem-bers, including Senators John MCCAIN, BOB GRAHAM, and Sam Nunn. In brief, our Commission focused on one core issue: What are U.S. national interests in today’s world?

The conclusion in 1996, 4 years ago— and the Senator, I think, will see some real similarities to some of our con-cerns as of today—in the wake of the cold war, the American public’s inter-est in foreign policy declined sharply, and our political leaders have focused on domestic concerns. America’s for-eign policy was adrift.

The defining feature of American en-gagement in the world since the cold war has been confusion, leading to missed opportunities and emerging threats.

The Commission went on to say there must be a regrounding of American for-eign policy on the foundation of solid national interests. They went on to conclude that there must be greater clarity regarding the hierarchy of American national interests and, with limited resources, a better under-standing of what national interests are and, just as important, are not.

Then the Commission prioritized what we felt represented vital national interests. It is interesting to note that the conflicts such as Bosnia and Kosovo did not make the priority cut at that time. That was 4 years ago.

However, the real genesis for this forum that Senator CLELAND and I have tried to initiate resulted from frustrations over continued and in-creasing U.S. military involvement and intervention both in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf and all around the world. Absent was what we consider to be clear policy goals, not only from the executive, but also from the Congress.

We found ourselves on the floor of the Senate, and in committee, coming to the same conclusion reached by the esteemed and beloved longtime chair-man of the Senate Armed Services


CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE 1477 February 24, 2000 Committee, Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, who said this, following the war in Vietnam:

I shall never again knowingly support a policy of sending American men in uniform overseas to fight in a war where military vic-tory has been ruled out and when they do not have the full support of the American people.

Yet we continue to see our military becoming involved and taking part in peacekeeping missions, and other mis-sions, where incremental escalation has led to wars of gradualism, where our vital national interests are ques-tionable, and where the unintended ef-fects of our involvement have been counterproductive to national security.

We met in Senator CLELAND’s office and discussed at length the proper role of the Senate in regard to the use of American troops. We talked about the War Powers Act. We talked about the future of NATO. We talked about our policy in the Persian Gulf. We noted, with considerable frustration, that Senators seemed to be faced with votes, but votes that were already fore-gone conclusions.

Few were willing to oppose funding for U.S. troops—not many in the Sen-ate or the House will do that—yet many Senators had strong reservations and questions about U.S. policy, our military tactics, and the lack of what some called the end game.

We instructed our staffs to research the War Powers Act and any other pos-sible alternatives that would provide an outlet for future policy decisions.

Senator CLELAND persevered, and along with Senator SNOWE of Maine, authored and won passage of an amend-ment mandating that the administra-tion report to the Congress on any op-eration involving 500 or more troops, and that report would include clear and distinct objectives, as well as the end point of the operation.

In my own case, I authored and won approval of an amendment stating no funds could be used for deployment of troops in the Balkans until the Presi-dent reported to Congress detailing the reasons for the deployment, number of military troops to be used, the mission and objectives of the forces, the sched-ule and exit strategy, and the esti-mated costs involved. Again, these amendments were after the fact, but they at least represented a bipartisan effort on the part of Senators who real-ized then and realize now that we sim-ply must do a better job of working with the executive and searching for greater mutual understanding in the Senate in regard to foreign policy and our national security interests.

In saying this, let me stress that this body and our country are fortunate to have the benefit of Senators with both expertise and experience with regard to foreign relations and national security. That certainly doesn’t reside only with the two Senators here involved. When they speak, we listen. But the problem

is, they do not speak enough, and when they do, many do not listen.

The unfortunate conclusion I have reached is that too many Americans are not only uninterested in world events but uninformed as well. More and more today in the Congress, it seems to me that foreign policy, trade, and national security issues are driven by ideology, insular and parochial in-terests, protectionism, and isolationist views. Both the administration and the Congress seem to be lacking a foreign policy focus, purpose, and constructive agenda.

The one notable exception has been the hearings held by the distinguished chairman of the Armed Services Com-mittee, Senator WARNER, who has held extensive hearings on ‘‘Lessons Learned’’ with regard to Kosovo. It is a paradox of enormous irony that the vi-sion of knitting a multiethnic society and democracy out of century-old hatreds in Kosovo is in deep trouble. The danger of Kosovo is the fact that it may become another Somalia. These hearings have attracted little more than a blip on the public radar screen and little, if any, commentary or de-bate in the Senate.

So as Senator CLELAND has pointed out, over the course of the coming year he and I will engage in a series of floor dialogues relating to the general direc-tion of U.S. foreign and national secu-rity policy in the 21st century. We begin today by discussing the frame-work for the U.S. global role. In the following months, as the Senator has said, we will discuss the defining na-tional interests, deployment of U.S. forces, the role of multilateral organi-zations, the role of the Executive, Con-gress and the public, and the role of trade, economics, and arms control. As Senator CLELAND has stressed, this is just an outline.

We invite all Senators to engage in this series. The concept is one of a forum, a dialogue, that will and should include a wide variety of viewpoints. For instance, given the flashpoint situ-ation today in Kosovo, with about 5,000 to 6,000 American troops at risk—and we may be calling in the Marines. I be-lieve that topic certainly demands at-tention and discussion, however, in a different and separate forum. There should be some discussion and consid-eration in the Senate in that regard.

As Senator CLELAND has pointed out, we all know that foreign policy and na-tional security are legitimate concerns that should be addressed in the Presi-dential and congressional campaigns; at least I hope they are addressed. But beyond this election year, the Senate will again be faced with our constitu-tional responsibilities in shaping this Nation’s role in global affairs, national security, international stability, and peace. Simply put: Our national inter-est depends on reaching a bipartisan consensus. My colleague and I both

hope this forum will contribute to achieving that goal and, in doing so, also contribute to greater public sup-port and understanding.

I thank the Senator for yielding and understand he has some additional re-marks, as I do following his remarks.

Mr. CLELAND. I thank the Senator. We appreciate working with him on this quite challenging and daunting task, but it is worth doing. It is an honor to be with him today and work with him. One of my key staff people, Mr. Bill Johnston, has done a momen-tous job of research for the speeches, the addresses, the facts, the figures, and the quotes I will be using in this dialog. I want to make sure he gets proper credit at this time.

Mr. President, I will now set the stage for today’s discussion by sketch-ing a brief outline of the evolution of the main currents of U.S. foreign pol-icy and, then, by providing a short look at what some leading voices are cur-rently proposing for how America should make its way in the post-cold- war world.

As in any transition period, we are feeling our way for the appropriate strategy and policies with which to maintain and enhance our national se-curity interests in this period of a ‘‘new world disorder.’’ As the debates on NATO enlargement, Kosovo and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty re-vealed, those leading voices on Amer-ican foreign policy currently offer di-vided counsel on this issue. It is obvi-ous that no clear consensus has yet formed as to America’s post-cold-war strategy, and that, or course, is what we are looking to address in these dis-cussions.

Until the 20th century, it would be fair to sum up our general philosophy on foreign policy as an attempt to con-tinue to follow President Washington’s recommended approach contained in his Farewell Address of September 17, 1796:

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. . . . The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, ei-ther of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. . . . Steer clear of permanent alliances, with any por-tion of the foreign world. . . . There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real flavors from nation to nation.

Then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams further elaborated on this ap-proach when he proclaimed in 1821 that:

Whenever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [America’s] heart, her bene-dictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and inde-pendence of all. She is the champion and vin-dicator only of her own.

As Henry Kissinger, a modern day commentator, has put it, this policy,


CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE1478 February 24, 2000 augmented by the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 which sought to prevent European interference in the Western Hemi-sphere, made imminent good sense until early in the 1900s:

In the early years of the Republic, Amer-ican foreign policy was in fact a sophisti-cated reflection of the American national in-terest, which was, simply, to fortify the new nation’s independence. . . . Until the turn of the twentieth century, American foreign pol-icy was basically quite simple: to fulfill the country’s manifest destiny, and to remain free of entanglements overseas. America fa-vored democratic governments whenever possible, but abjured action to vindicate its preferences. . . . Until early this century, the isolationist tendency prevailed in Amer-ican foreign policy. Then two factors pro-jected America into world affairs: its rapidly expanding power and the gradual collapse of the international system centered on Eu-rope.

Woodrow Wilson took this increased American power and the shattered Eu-ropean order, added to it the tradi-tional American view of our excep-tional role in the world and developed what has become the dominant ap-proach of modern American foreign policy-making. As he said in 1915:

We insist upon security in prosecuting our self-chosen lines of national development. We do more than that. We demand it also for others. We do not confine our enthusiasm for individual liberty and free national develop-ment to the incidents and movements of af-fairs which affect only ourselves. We feel it wherever there is a people that tries to walk in these difficult paths of independence and right.

Thus, for the first time in American history, the notion that it was our right and our duty to . . . wherever they might arise was established. While the details have changed from time to time, with some variation in the degree of enthusiasm for foreign interventions, this is still today the foundation in defining our role in the world. It was elaborated somewhat in the famous 1947 Foreign Affairs article penned by ‘‘X’’—later disclosed to be George Kennan—which guided our ulti-mately successful conduct of the cold war by urging, ‘‘a policy of firm con-tainment, designed to confront the Russians with unalterable counterforce at every point where they show signs of encroaching upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world.’’

To be sure, there has rarely been a time in American history when all voices have been united behind the dominant approach to the U.S. global role. Many in this body, including my-self, participated in one way or another in the national turmoil over the appli-cation of the containment policy in Southeast Asia, in a place called Viet-nam. But, while there was vigorous de-bate on the advisability of specific im-plementations of Wilsonian ‘‘idealism’’ there has never been a serious chal-lenge since the Second World War to what might be called an ‘‘internation-alist interventionist’’ model for the

United States in its national security policies.

Yet, as we begin the year 2000, the world has changed in significant ways from the one we have known since World War II. The Soviet Union is no more. The Communists did not, in the end, bury us, but with a few notable ex-ceptions who currently survive in China, Cuba, Vietnam, and North Korea, it is they who have been buried by historical inevitability. Again, to quote, Dr. Kissinger:

The end of the Cold War produced an even greater temptation to recast the inter-national environment in America’s image. Wilson had been constrained by isolationism at home, and Truman had come up against Stalinist expansionism. In the post-Cold War world, the United States is the only remain-ing superpower with the capacity to inter-vene in every part of the globe. Yet power has become more diffuse and the issues to which military force is relevant have dimin-ished. Victory in the Cold War has propelled America into a world which bears many sim-ilarities to the European state system of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and to practices which American statesmen and thinkers have consistently questioned. The absence of both an overriding ideological or strategic threat frees nations to pursue for-eign policies based increasingly on their im-mediate national interest.

Just as the very different inter-national environment facing America at the start of the 20th century—with growing American strength accom-panying a collapse of the European order—occasioned the need for a funda-mental reassessment of the U.S. place in the world, so the end of the 20th cen-tury—with an end to the bipolar cold war and the emergence of multiple, if not yet super at least major, powers— necessitates another thoroughgoing re-view and evaluation of where we are and where we should be headed.

And if one has been reading the for-eign policy journals and white papers during the last few years, one finds a vigorous and thoughtful debate under-way on just such questions. I’d like to take just a few minutes to provide the Senate with a small bit of the flavor of this dialog among American foreign policy commentators.

In a 1995 article in Foreign Affairs magazine, Richard Haass of the Brook-ings Institute provided I think a useful starting point for our consideration by separating the debate on America’s global role into two parts: the prior-ities or ends of American policy, and the approaches or means currently available to achieve those ends. As pos-sible priorities, he lists Wilsonian idealism with its emphasis on pro-motion of democratic values, economism which—as the name sug-gests—gives primacy to economic con-siderations, realism which is often as-sociated with the traditional diplo-matic concepts of balance of power and international equilibrium, humani-tarianism which focuses more on alle-viating the plight of individuals, and

minimalism which could be thought of as ‘‘neo-isolationism’’ but accepts the need for selected and limited U.S. en-gagement in global affairs. On the side of means, Haass lists unilateralism which provides the dominant country— the United States—with largely unfet-tered freedom of action in pursuit of its goals, neo-internationalism or ‘‘asser-tive multilateralism’’ which relies on multilateral organizations and ap-proaches to international problem- solving, and regionalism which he de-fines as U.S. leadership within alli-ances and coalitions.

Writing in the Spring 1996 issue of Strategic Review, Naval Postgraduate School Professor of National Security Affairs Edward A. Olsen presented a view which might be termed as minimalism when he advocated a re-turn to our pre-World War II approach which he characterized as one of ‘‘ab-stention, benign neglect, and non- interventionism within a policy of highly selective engagement.’’ Pro-fessor Olsen distinguished his proposed policy of disengagement and non-inter-vention—which would be marked by less military intervention, less foreign aid, and fewer international entangle-ments—from isolationism because his approach would allow the U.S. ‘‘stra-tegic independence’’ to determine for itself, independent of other countries or multilateral organizations, when and how to engage abroad.

In almost direct opposition to the Olsen prescription, with goals akin to Wilsonian idealism and employing a largely unilateralist approach, William Kristol and Robert Kagan used a sum-mer 1996 edition of Foreign Affairs to argue for a U.S. role of benevolent global hegemony in the belief that, ‘‘American principles around the world can be sustained only by the con-tinuing exertion of American influ-ence,’’ including foreign aid, diplo-macy, and when necessary military intervention.

In his 1994 book, entitled Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger, provides a contem-porary, updated version of the realist balance of power view:

America’s dominant task is to strike a bal-ance between the twin temptations inherent in its exceptionalism: the notion that Amer-ica must remedy every wrong and stabilize every dislocation, and the latent instinct to withdraw into itself. . . . A country with America’s idealistic tradition cannot base its policy on the balance of power as the sole criterion for a new world order. But it must learn that equilibrium is a fundamental pre-condition for the pursuit of its historic goals.

A quote that comes to mind for me is when President Kennedy said, ‘‘There is not necessarily an American solu-tion for every problem in the world.’’

I think that is the real issue. Former Congressman Stephen Solarz espoused the humaniarianism goal in the Winter 2000 edition of Blueprint Magazine:

Some, of course, will object to humani-tarian intervention as a violation of the


CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE 1479 February 24, 2000 principle of sovereignty, which precludes military interference in the internal affairs of other nations. . . . Yet it is clear today that the non-interference doctrine no longer trumps all other considerations. This was ob-vious when the United Nations sanctioned interventions during the 1990s in Northern Iraq, Somalia, and Haiti. Where crimes against humanity or genocide are involved, the doctrine of humanitarian intervention is increasingly accepted as a justification for violating the otherwise inviolable borders of sovereign states.

A particular variant of the region-alism approach is contained within Samuel P. Huntington’s 1996 work, The Clash of Civilizations: Remaking of World Order.

I know that is a favorite of the good Senator from Kansas.

In the aftermath of the cold war the United States became consumed with mas-sive debates over the proper course of Amer-ican foreign policy. In this era, however, the United States can neither dominate nor es-cape the world. Neither internationalism nor isolationism, neither multilateralism nor unilateralism, will best serve its interests. Those will best be advanced by eschewing these opposing extremes and instead adopt-ing an Atlanticist policy of close cooperation with its European partners to protect and advance the interests and values of the unique civilization they share.

These are just a very few of the many ‘‘think pieces’’ which have been coming out of the American foreign policy community since the end of the cold war. Even this brief glimpse reveals a wide divergence in expert opinions on the preferred priorities and approaches for post-cold-war U.S. global engage-ment. To further evaluate the current debate among individuals with strong-ly held views on where we should be headed I asked the outstanding Con-gressional Research Service to provide me with a ‘‘review of the literature’’ on U.S. global role options.

I ask unanimous consent that this CRS document be printed in the RECORD.

There being no objection, the mate-rial was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

A REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON U.S. GLOBAL ROLE OPTIONS

1. Abshire, David M. ‘‘U.S. Global Policy: To-ward an Agile Strategy.’’ Washington Quar-terly, v. 19, spring 1996: 41–61.

Since the end of the Cold War, which was marked by the U.S. promotion of a policy of containment, the U.S. and other powers have entered a strategic interregnum (44) in which foreign policy strategies have not been fully defined. Abshire states that the U.S. should strive toward a policy of agility: ‘‘an agile strategy for the use of power and the achievement of peace’’ (41) which is charac-terized by flexibility in action and long- range goals and is guided by vital national interests. This strategy is proactive rather than reactive and aims to ‘‘return to clas-sical formulations of the proper uses of power to influence the behavior of U.S. oppo-nents, and indeed allies’’ (46). Realism (49) forms the foundation of a strategy of agility, acknowledging that military conflict and economic competition are features of world affairs. At the same time, this strategy rec-

ognizes the importance of idealism (50) and the role U.S. democratic ideals should play in international relations. Specifically, this strategy represents a balance between short- term realism and long-term idealism (48): In the short run, the U.S. should defend its in-terests from immediate threats; in the long run the U.S. should strive to promote U.S. ideals such as democracy and free trade. This policy is opposed to isolationism (51), but ex-pects U.S. leaders to set clear boundaries in U.S. foreign policy.

2. Albright, Madeleine K. ‘‘The Testing of American Foreign Policy.’’ Foreign Affairs, v. 77, Nov.–Dec. 1998: 50–64.

Albright describes a four-part strategy for U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. should encour-age continuing relations with other leading nations (51), aid transitional states in play-ing a larger role in the international system (52), help weaker states that are trying to overcome economic and political problems (52), and ward off threats that affect world security (51–53). This strategy is driven by vision and pragmatism: U.S. foreign policy should incorporate a vision of future policy concerns and should be shaped by pragmatic approaches to foreign policy issues (54–59). The will and resources to carry out policy are essential to implementing this strategy (59–62). In the final analysis, U.S. foreign pol-icy is tested by ‘‘how well our actions meas-ure up to our ideals . . . we want our foreign policy to reflect our status as the globe’s leading champion of freedom’’ (63).

3. Arbatov, Georgi. ‘‘Eurasia Letter: A New Cold War?’’ Foreign Policy, no. 95, summer 1994: 90–103.

The institutions of the West have sup-ported Russian plans for reform despite the plans’ shortcomings and disastrous results. Russia has not made progress toward build-ing democracy, and the West is partly re-sponsible for Russia’s current woes. The West’s role in supporting economic policies unsuitable for Russia has spurred new dis-trust of the West and notions of a Western conspiracy to introduce policies that will harm the Russian economy (91–96). The West should take part in stopping human rights violations against ethnic Russians living in former Soviet republics (98). The U.S. must recognize that Russia should play an impor-tant role in international affairs (102). Both countries are responsible for Russia’s future and should seek cooperation (103).

4. Blumenthal, Sidney. ‘‘The Return of the Repressed Anti-Internationalism and the Amer-ican Right.’’ World Policy Journal, v. 12, fall 1995: 1–13.

Isolationism has been revived in a new form as an ‘‘inchoate anti-internationalism’’ (2) on the part of the Republican Right. This new anti-internationalism is marked by vig-orous opposition to the role of the United Nations and is closely related to growing anti-government and xenophobic sentiments. Although isolationist views were espoused by members of both the Right and the Left in pre-World War II America, by the end of the war, isolationism had become strictly a cause of the Right and was combined with its anticommunist movement (4–5). Advocates of this policy viewed containment as a poor compromise and advocated a unilateral mili-tary approach to Cold War threats. Unilateralism (6) remained an important cornerstone of this policy up to Reagan’s terms in office, although Reagan eventually disillusioned supporters with his policy of engagement with Gorbachev. George Bush was criticized for his emphasis on foreign af-fairs. As Clinton’s first term in office pro-gressed, he paid more heed to anti-

internationlism and initiated policies to limit the U.S. role in multilateral peace-keeping (9). The Republican platform, Con-tract with America, advanced several anti- international principles, and ‘‘[f]or the first time since the inception of the Cold War, te-nets of anti-internationalism have become official dogma of the Republican Party’’ (10). Republicans who oppose anti-internation-alism have not challenged this position with-in their party. Idealist and realist ap-proaches (11) to foreign policy will be af-fected by this anti-internationalism if it continues to flourish. Blumenthal identifies several versions of realism. Augmented real-ism, or realism plus, (11) sees conviction as a driving force in obtaining a leadership role. Washington realism (11) focuses on inter-national affairs at the expense of domestic ones. Republican realism fails ‘‘to explain how internationalism can coexist with a so-cial policy that radically widens class, ra-cial, and gender divisions . . .’’ (11).

5. Calleo, David P. ‘‘A New Era of Over-stretch? American Policy in Europe and Asia.’’ World Policy Journal, v. 15, spring 1998: 11–29.

Clinton downplayed foreign policy when elected in 1992 and in his first term ‘‘quietly’’ took on ‘‘a sort of devolutionist foreign pol-icy’’ (12–13). Clinton encouraged the Europeanization of NATO and seemed to pro-mote a foreign policy in which the U.S. would serve as a balancing power in a multipolar arena and would not aspire to Bush’s vision of the U.S. as the only super-power in a unipolar world (13). Muted ele-ments of Wilsonianism could be detected in some Clinton policies to ‘‘[prod] the world toward universal democracy’’ (13). Clinton began to take a more active role in foreign policy in his second term and initiate

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