[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 145 (Friday, October 24, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H9504]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        PRESIDENT SHOULD NOT PANDER TO COMMUNIST CHINESE LEADERS

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, as we know, the Chinese 
Government leaders are coming to America and President Clinton is 
welcoming them with open arms. I want to ask the President why these 
Chinese Communists can do no wrong? Is this not the same Chinese 
Government who illegally donated funds to the Clinton campaign? The 
same one that uses slave labor, that imprisons political dissidents, 
and now has leased up our former naval base in Long Beach; a Communist 
encroachment right here in the United States?
  Mr. Speaker, instead of taking money and wrapping his arms around the 
Chinese leader, the President should be rapping them on the knuckles 
for their horrific record of religious persecution and human rights 
violations.
  Mr. Speaker, I say to the President, ``Mr. President, stop pandering 
to a corrupt government that tortures its people and thumbs its nose to 
a free world.''

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