[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 30 (Wednesday, March 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1240]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            TRUST BUT VERIFY

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, 2 years ago the White House told China, 
If you promise to stop selling missiles to terrorist nations, we will 
give you most favored nation trade status; and China said, Good, that's 
great. Okay.
  Last year the White House said, Look, you are breaking your promise, 
China; you are selling missiles to Iran and Iraq. Come on. They said, 
Okay, you are right. This time we will stop.
  This year the White House has just announced that they are going to 
share our nuclear technology programs with China because China has 
promised to stop this madness, and they said this time China really 
means it.
  Beam me up. These are not promises; these are lies. I would like to 
say one thing. Somebody is inhaling over at the White House with this 
program with China. We are financing the biggest national security 
threat in our history, Mr. Speaker. I think Ronald Reagan's words 
``trust but verify'' should be taken to heart in this Congress.

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