Speech #940044898

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I would like to respond to the preferential motion offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts by saying what I said here yesterday in general debate. and that is that it is not time for the Congress to sit on its hands and do nothing. It is time for the Congress to be united with the administration in our belief that we must evacuate every American citizen. every dependent. and every man or woman who may lose his life. out of South Vietnam. if we can do it. The Congress stood up to put limitations on the Indochina war. to deal with the immigration problem in the Soviet Union. to deal with the Turkish situation. and this is the time to deal with the Vietnamese situation. Taking a position by the Congress is most important.