Madam President. President Clinton has just signified his intention to ask Congress for additional appropriations of some $5.45 billion for military costs involved in the war in Kosovo and some $491 million to pay for humanitarian assistance. It is my thought that Congress will be receptive to supporting our fighting men and women overseas and will similarly be receptive to humanitarian aid for the thousands of refugees who have been driven from their homes in Kosovo. These requests will give us an opportunity to ask some very important questions and get some very important information to assess our military preparedness and to make the determination as to how much our allies are contributing to this effort. which ought to be a joint effort. We have seen the U.S. military preparedness decline very markedly in the past decade and a half.
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