[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 159 (Wednesday, November 12, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H10585]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        DOES THE WHITE HOUSE TAKE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR FOOLS?

  (Mr. SOLOMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, as we race toward adjournment tomorrow 
night, and I think we will, let me just say that if I may use the words 
of the President this past weekend, I think we have another case of a 
no-brainer. If we have a political party that suddenly discovers after 
an election that over $3 million in campaign contributions has to be 
returned because it came from foreign sources and everyone is taking 
the fifth amendment because no one wants to talk about it, that is a 
no-brainer that something is very wrong, Mr. Speaker.
  Mr. Speaker, does the White House really take the American people as 
fools? Thirty-nine House and Senate witnesses, beginning with John 
Huang and Mark Middleton, are taking the fifth; 11 witnesses, beginning 
with Charlie Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak, have left the country; 11 
foreign witnesses, beginning with Stephen and James Riady, refuse even 
to be interviewed. Why would we not conclude that they have something 
to hide?
  If 70 people have taken the fifth or fled the country about raising 
Chinese money, why would anyone not conclude that crimes have been 
committed by someone?

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