[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 134 (Wednesday, October 1, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8268]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS DID NOT STAND IN THE WAY OF THE CLINTON-GORE 
                          REELECTION CAMPAIGN

  (Mr. BOB SCHAFFER of Colorado asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOB SCHAFFER of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, when Americans opened up 
their newspaper last week, this is what they found:
  DNC Teamsters and the Teamsters traded funds. Clinton-Gore campaign 
implicated in scheme to raise illegal donations. Court records show 
that the Clinton-Gore Reelection Committee and the Democrat National 
Committee conspired with Teamsters to divert money to a union boss's 
election. They conspired to hide these illegal contributions, and they 
conspired to swap funds with Teamsters. We know this because three 
aides to Teamster boss Ron Carey pleaded guilty to these felony charges 
of diverting funds through various political groups to the Teamsters. 
It was payback time over at the Clinton-Gore Reelection Committee, and 
so an illegal laundering scheme was hatched, and no campaign finance 
laws were going to stand in their way.
  Here is how the laundry cycle worked: Take the union funds, put it to 
Democrat Senate and House election committees; the Clinton-Gore 
campaign pays back by calling their wealthy donors to send cash to the 
Carey reelection campaign.
  And here we have just one more example of a Presidential legacy that 
makes Richard Nixon's legacy look like an ethics guide to the Boy 
Scouts.

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