User:LizArchive/Mr. Clinton, what do you define as a country?

"Mr. Clinton, what do you define as a country?" is a phrase that was originally said by Bob Jones on April 12th, 1989, during his Senate hearing, in response to a question from Senator Bill Clinton regarding Taiwan.

The Senate begun to erupt in chaos as president pro tempore Jackson Cole tried (and failed) to regain order in the Senate, as Senators Chamel Collins, Jeremy Grenwich, Diane Sivula, Ossoff Posting, and Andrew Palin screamed at then-Secretary of Defense nominee Jones - the nomination shortly failed, as described by Amy Klobuchar in the image to the right.

History
President Storm Kennedy, extremely popular President, nominated Bob Jones, U.S. Representative from Superior's 1st, to become U.S. Secretary of Defense. Jones was head of the New Republican caucus in the U.S. House. The hearing was one of the longest Senate hearings in history - 4 days, 5 hours and 28 minutes.

Other popular ideas during the hearing

 * The Cidade do Tomate massacre, an idea made up by U.S. Senator Diane Gonzolez-Sivula during the Jones hearing to have been done by the Mexican government.
 * What the hell happened here?, a phrase said by U.S. Senator Freya Oliver, who was late to the hearing