On June 19, the U.S. House of Representatives defeated an amendment by California Democratic Congressman Jane Harman (D-Calif.) to permit abortions for female members of the armed forces and their dependents at defense facilities overseas. The proposal was rejected 196 to 224, Roll Call #217.

On the Senate side, in a similar vote on July 10 (Roll Call #167), 7 Republicans joined with 41 Democrats in an unsuccessful effort to restore Defense Department authorized abortions.

 As reported by The Washington Times (7/18/97, p. A15), "The Senate approved the $13.2 billion foreign aid package for fiscal 1998, which starts Oct. 1, on a 91-8 vote....The spending bill also provides $3.5 billion requested by the administration for Export-Import Bank loans to U.S. companies....

"The senior Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, praised the increase and said it would help Washington better further democracy, free trade and human rights abraod [sic]."

The Republican Senate has handed a clear victory to Bill Clinton and to Communist China with respect to the export of militarily significant technology to Beijing.

As reported in The New York Times (7/11/97, p. A9), "After heavy lobbying by the computer industry and the Clinton Administration, the Senate today rejected a proposal to tighten control of the sale of American supercomputers to China and Russia and instead voted for further study of the issue...."

"The normally arcane subject of export controls became a lively debate earlier this year when it was disclosed that Chinese and Russian nuclear weapon facilities had acquired American supercomputers without Federal licenses."

"[T]his new policy...put into place in October 1995...has resulted in supercomputers coming into the possession of the Chinese Academy of Sciences which has a component that is involved in the modernization of the Chinese nuclear weapons program and systems. They now have seven supercomputers that came from the United States that they are using, they potentially are using, to develop a more modern weapons capability in nuclear weapons.

"The Russian chief of atomic energy boasted recently that his operation...Chelyabinsk 20 and Arzamas 16...where they do work on nuclear weapons systems in Russia...now have a supercomputer capability previously unknown, compliments of the United States...."

Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin of April 30, 1997

According to The New York Times (4/9/97, p. 1), "Eight Senate Republicans, including three committee chairmen, lined up today behind legislation that would raise cigarette taxes to pay for health insurance for children now uninsured, giving them a striking boost to the bill's prospects.

"Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee, recruited seven others from his party to co-sponsor the bill, which he introduced today with Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts....

"The Republicans whom Mr. Hatch got to co-sponsor the bill are Senators Ted Stevens of Alaska, chairman of the Appropriations Committee; James M. Jeffords of Vermont, chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee; Robert F. Bennett of Utah; Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado; Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, and Gordon H. Smith of Oregon. Mr. Hatch said he hoped to sign up more soon...."

STATES WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED TO GUARANTEE COVERAGE

"States that choose to participate in the new program would be required to provide subsidized insurance for all children 18 or younger in families whose income is below 185 percent of the Federal poverty level (below $24,660 at present for a family of four). Each would have to insure coverage equivalent to that of its Medicaid program."

Although some of the eight retreated from their apparent willingness to raise taxes in support of the bill, all of them adhered to their endorsement of the latest Kennedy-Hatch installment on the road to comprehensive government control of American medicine.

Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin of April 30, 1997

CHEMICAL WEAPONS TREATY

What is the real lesson of Bill Clinton's decisive victory in securing ratification of a chemical weapons treaty which undermines U.S. national security and places in jeopardy the Constitutional rights of American citizens?

"CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT" HAS "A SEAT AT THE TABLE", BUT THEIR BEGGING BOWLS ARE EMPTY

The lesson is that the "conservative Republican" movement in Washington, D.C. has absolutely no decisive influence with the leadership of the Republican Party whenever patriotism conflicts with profit, whenever love of America's national independence interferes with the goals of New World Order advocates.

Virtually every nationally recognized "conservative Republican" organization took a public stand in opposition to the treaty – from the American Conservative Union to the Family Research Council, from Americans for Tax Reform to the Free Congress Foundation, from Eagle Forum to Concerned Women for America.

REPUBLICAN ROUNDHEELS ROLL OVER FOR CLINTON –PAULA JONES KNEW HOW TO SAY "NO" – WHY CAN'T THEY?

But, when push came to shove, Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Spencer Abraham (Mich.), John Chafee (R.I.), Dan Coats (Ind.), Thad Cochran (Miss.), Susan Collins (Maine), Alfonse D'Amato (N.Y.), Mike DeWine (Ohio), Pete Domenici (N.M.), Michael Enzi (Wyo.), Bill Frist (Tenn.), Slade Gorton (Wash.), Judd Gregg (N.H.), Chuck Hagel (Neb.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Jim Jeffords (Vt.), Dick Lugar (Ind.), John McCain (Ariz.), Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Frank Murkowski (Alaska), Pat Roberts (Kan.), Bill Roth (Del.), Rick Santorum (Pa.), Gordon Smith (Ore.), Olympia Snowe (Maine), Arlen Specter (Pa.), Ted Stevens (Alaska), Craig Thomas (Wyo.), and John Warner (Va.) found it more convenient to put substantive concerns on the back burner and deliver their votes to their supposed adversary, Bill Clinton, than to heed the meritorious arguments of faithful allies in the conservative Republican movement.

ELEPHANTS NEVER REMEMBER

There's an old story that elephants never forget. I wish it were true. The tragedy is that conservative Republicans never remember. They never remember that Republicans have sold them out on NAFTA, the Fed, the World Trade Organization, bailouts of the U.N., Planned Parenthood subsidies, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Legal Services Corporation, Bosnia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, homosexual subsidies, Federal control of education, quotas, immigration, taxes, spending, and almost everything else that really matters.

Call it what you will: amnesia, Alzheimer's, or asininity – to be a conservative Republican, you must consistently forget the past, and be consistently condemned to repeat it.

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