[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 95 (Tuesday, July 8, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4844]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TELLING IT LIKE IT IS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, let us tell it like it is. When monks and 
nuns who take a vow of poverty give $140,000 to a presidential 
campaign, ladies and gentlemen, when a welfare worker who makes $20,000 
a year gives the entire $20,000 to a presidential campaign, something 
is funny.
  If that is not enough to freeze your stir fry, when an Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce responsible for international trade raises 3.5 
million Chinese dollars for a presidential campaign, this is not China-
gate, this is sewer-gate. This is not about Democrats, this is not 
about Republicans. This is about national security and Communists, 
Communists who may have compromised big people in high places in our 
Government.
  But let me say this, Congress. These Chinese Communists did not 
provide all those bucks because they are enamored with and love 
America. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. I say, let the dragon chips fall 
where they may.

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