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Excerpt from Friendly Fire Shootdown of Army Helicopters Over Northern Iraq: Hearing Before the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the Committee on National Security House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held, August 2, 1995 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:05 a.m., in room 2118, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Robert K. Doman (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Opening Statement Of Hon. Robert K. Dornan, A Representative From California, Chairman, Military Personnel Subcommittee Mr. Dornan. The Military Personnel Subcommittee of the National Security Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives will come to order. A few explanations at the beginning for our witnesses and all other interested parties: The House will adjourn tomorrow afternoon for a district work period of about 51/2 weeks. The House of Representatives has built up a tremendous workload on our appropriations bills that we are passing over every hour to the U.S. Senate. They will not adjourn for another week. September will be a hyperactive month, as those of you know who follow the Congress of the United States, as we close on September 30 the end of the fiscal year. So we have much business in the House today. We will go past midnight again. But tomorrow there has been a family-friendly order that we will adjourn on or about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I am telling you this to explain why there are not more members here. I have three regular members of the panel and Mr. Roemer who has a keen constituent interest in this tragedy and who is here as a guest. At least 10 other members, who are not regularly assigned to this subcommittee, have asked if they could sit on the panel with me and they will be coming in and out during the day. Mr. Skelton of Missouri has some other pressing business that is going to take him away periodically during the day. He will come and go, as all the members will. I am telling you this to assure you that the interest in this tragedy is intense in your Congress. As you can see by the news medias attention in the Rayburn hallway here, there is interest across the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.