[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 35 (Wednesday, March 25, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H1452-H1453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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     TIME FOR VICE PRESIDENT TO COME CLEAN ABOUT FUND-RAISING EVENT

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, it is time for a little quiz. What is the 
difference between a community outreach event and a fund-raiser? We 
really would like to know. But maybe the Vice President can help us. 
How about this one? What is the difference between a finance-related 
event and a fund-raiser? Or how about the difference between an event 
for donor maintenance and a fund-raiser?
  It is a time for the Vice President to come clean about the legal 
event, whatever euphemism we want to use to describe it, that was held 
on April 29, 1996, in California. Maybe the Vice President can help us 
with the problem we are having trying to understand how an event 
organized by Maria Hsia, who is a fund-raiser, which raised $55,000, is 
not a fund-raiser?

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  Mr. Speaker, we do not need an MBA, we do not need a CPA, we do not 
need a Ph.D. in economics to see when a professional fund-raiser raises 
$55,000 at a finance-related event we are talking about a fund-raiser.
  Leaving the shredded documents and money laundering aside, what 
exactly is the Vice President's explanation about this sordid affair?

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