[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 16, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H7287-H7288]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    CAMPAIGN FINANCE IN CURRENT LAW

  (Mrs. CHENOWETH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CHENOWETH. Mr. Speaker, most children have tried the tactic we 
are now seeing from the other side regarding the White House scandals 
and campaign finance reform. If you catch a child with his hands in the 
cookie jar, sometimes he tries to change the subject on that which they 
are doing, and if they cannot successfully change the subject, then 
they get angry.
  Most parents see right through what their child is trying to do to 
escape punishment for disobeying their parents. Fortunately, thank 
goodness, most Americans are able to see through the hypocrisy of 
Democrats who claim to want to ban soft money, the very same people who 
have raised illegal fund raising from foreign sources to an art form.

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  Current law, I know that the other side is not very concerned about 
current law, especially last year, in last year's campaign, but current 
law does not require full disclosure. If it had during 1996, we would 
have known what the millions of dollars in soft money raised from 
foreign sources were that was actually returned because of their 
criminal behavior.

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