[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 7 (Wednesday, February 2, 1994)]
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              CLINTON ADMINISTRATION INVESTIGATING ITSELF

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown 
was accused of taking a $700,000 bribe to normalize relations with 
Vietnam. His chief accuser, Mr. Binh Ly, passed a 6-hour FBI lie 
detector test.
  Mr. Brown lied to the media about meeting with a Mr. Hao who was the 
conduit with Vietnam. He met with Mr. Hao not once but three times. I 
believe Mr. Brown also lied to Congress about his involvement about 
normalizing relations with Vietnam.
  We, the Congress, were stonewalled by Justice, Commerce, and the 
White House when we tried to investigate this, and now an associate of 
Janet Reno, the head of the Justice Department, went down to Miami and 
ran the grand jury investigation, and they are letting him off.
  The American people ought to wonder if this administration can be 
allowed to investigate itself. One wonders about the Whitewater 
investigation as well.

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