CONGRESS' FINGERPRINTS ON U.S. GOING TO WAR

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Sunday, December 9, 1990

Apocryphal excerpts from a meeting of the Democratic Caucus of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, December 4, 1990. Following is the exchange between the Speaker of the House, Tom Foley and Congressman Joe Courage of anywhere. In this secret Caucus, the Democrats voted 177-37 against the initiation of hostilities against Iraq. There was no recorded roll call.

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