[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 116 (Friday, September 5, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H6921-H6922]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, yesterday Democrat after Democrat cried 
for campaign finance reform. For Democrats to talk about campaign 
finance reform is a little like getting mad at the road for the 
transgressions of a drunk driver. Where have they been when it comes 
time to talk about Buddhist temple fundraising or selling the Lincoln 
bedroom or Pauline Kanchanalak or John Huang or Charlie Trie or Eric 
Hotung or any of the aforementioned people or subjects? But just in 
case those are not good enough,

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I have got some additional reading material for some of you. These are 
good. I think you may have heard of these papers, the Wall Street 
Journal yesterday, Reno Review, ``That could lead to Gore independent 
counsel.'' Washington Post, September 4, ``U.S. set to probe Gore 
calls.'' Washington Times, ``Justice looking anew at probe of Gore.'' 
Even the New York Times, that great conservative publication that it 
is, front page, ``Inquiry on Gore fund-raising.'' Lots of good reading 
material in here. I am going to leave it in the House Chamber because I 
know some of you maybe do not read or have not had time to, but I am 
going to encourage you to do that because when it comes time to talk 
campaign finance reform, there is a lot of material right here, and I 
say let us start doing it on a bipartisan basis.

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