Issues Facing the 102nd Congress

Speaker Foley said that he felt the 102nd Congress will be a very important session because of the Persian Gulf war and the subsequent post-war recovery. He explained that the congress did fully debate the decision to give the President full authority to conduct the war. Speaker Foley described the nation's post-war concerns as being education, physical infrastructure, drug control, family and domestic issues, health care, and the economy. He said that the U.S. will need to take care of its own domestic concerns and not be the primary overseer of the "international community of devastation and defeat." This speech is closed captioned.