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I would hope without any disregard for my colleagues on the 

 other side of the aisle, those who have an interest in this will 

 follow it closely and are already in accordance with you. 



If I can inform you of something that was a nice precedent 

 yesterday, all of the Republicans of the House Foreign Affairs 

 Committee had a breakfast with the Secretary of State. 



I think if you would write to each one of the members of our side 

 of the aisle of this prestigious committee so that we can develop a 

 consensus quickly, to use our good offices to lean on the adminis- 

 tration, to move forward with this historical document which I 

 think — and I hope this isn't being hyperbolic — is a predecessor to 

 the law of the galaxies. 



We are already seeing articles about how we are going to mine 

 asteroids on the closest planets in outer space for minerals that are 

 more common there than in this planet, that we simply have to do 

 something quickly in this whole area and your advice is invaluable. 



Anything you want to communicate to the Republicans, I can 

 promise you our senior members will have meetings where we can 

 immediately project to the administration that this is not just a 

 democratic concern in the House, it is a Republican concern in the 

 House and the Senate to move forward with this incredibly impor- 

 tant treaty quickly and not take a year to analyze it. 



Thank you for your voluntary efforts over the past few months. 



Mr. Richardson. Thank you very much, Mr. Dornan. 



Mr. Dornan. It has been indicative of your spirit in decades of 

 service. 



Chairman Zablocki. May I ask the gentleman from California, 

 does he want the last statement on the record because it is a 

 confession? 



Mr. Dornan. Yes. The confessions of St. Augustine have been a 

 big seller for centuries and that puny, little confession I don't mind 

 being circulated broadly. 



Chairman Zablocki. I do wish you, Mr. Secretary, good luck in 

 trying to convey religion to some of my colleagues on the minority 

 side. We already have the faith. 



That is in jest. My Republican colleagues very often come to the 

 fore at moments I least expect them to. 



Mr. Leach. Thank you. 



I would like to comment to the gentleman from California that I 

 find his constructive judgment very, very impressive and his galac- 

 tic imagination also quite interesting. 



Mr. Dornan. Will the gentleman please yield? 



Mr. Leach. Yes. 



Mr. Dornan. A ghastly but extremeley popular movie last year 

 was the "Alien" and the scene began on a gigantic galactic freight- 

 er bringing back minerals to the planet Earth, and when I consider 

 my father was 11 years of age when the Wright Brothers flew, I 

 expect to see that happen literally in my lifetime and the sea is 

 just a backyard situation of what we will expect when all the 

 nations look toward the first nation that ventures into outer space 

 and it will probably be the United States. 



If it is not us we know who it will be. 



