From Newsday, August 21, 1998:

Washington – Congressional leaders strongly supported President Bill Clinton’s decision to strike targets in Sudan and Afghanistan yesterday, although a Republican senator raised questions about the timing and the motive of the attack.
Some of Clinton’s most consistent critics endorsed the decision to retaliate for the Aug. 7 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200 people, including 12 Americans.
House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.Ca.), who had been alerted by the White House before the attack, praised the operation.
“I think the United States did exactly the right thing. We cannot allow terrorist groups to attack embassies and do nothing,” Gingrich said.
Lott called the action “appropriate and just.”
Helms struck a rare bipartisan chord: “Sooner or later, terrorists will realize that America’s differences end at the water’s edge and that the United States political leadership always has, and always will, stand united in the face of international terrorism.”
Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.), who has called for Clinton’s resignation in light of his admission of an improper relationship with a White House intern, said the “timing is certainly suspect.”
“I believe, given the extraordinary situation we’re now in, these are the questions that are on the minds of the American people,” Coats said. “I’m raising questions . . . on what was the president’s role on this, and whether the president was in a position to make a sound judgment call in light of the speculation that would arise worldwide and the consequences of that in calling for this strike . . . a day and a half after his speech,” a reference to Monday’s televised speech on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
But Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), who has been aggressively investigating Clinton’s campaign-funding practices, took the opposite view. “I take the action for what it was – to stop the terrorists and to make them pay for what they did,” Burton said. “And that was the right thing to do. That’s coming from one of the president’s severest critics.”