[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8169]
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. Madam Speaker, when the White House was having 
organized fundraising events in the Lincoln bedroom for Democrat 
fundraising purposes, when it was raised by Republicans, Democrats 
said, ``You are being partisan.''
  When the Vice President of the United States raised thousands and 
thousands of dollars in a Buddhist temple from Buddhist monks and nuns, 
who had to take vows of poverty but they came up with $5,000 each, we 
were called antireligious.
  Now, because of some very questionable voting tactics in the 
California race, we are being dragged into this thing on a race count. 
You know, fair elections are not the domain of the party that lost, it 
belongs to everybody, Democrats and Republicans. We have a situation 
here where files have been subpoenaed.
  The legislation that we are having to pass today, which I hope all 
the Democrats join us in voting for, simply says give us the files so 
we can get to the bottom of this. We want to know whether it is fair or 
not, because it is not a Democrat or Republican issue.

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