[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 50 (Wednesday, April 29, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2444]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         THOSE WHO BROKE THE LAW NEED TO BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, the frustration level on my 
committee is very high. We know that millions of dollars in illegal 
campaign contributions have come in from foreign sources from places 
like Communist China, Macao and Taiwan and South America. We do not 
know what these people who contributed this money got for their money. 
Did it affect our foreign policy? Did it alter our defense strategies? 
Did it endanger in some way the United States of America down the road?
  Mr. Speaker, we need to know these things, and those who broke the 
law need to be brought to justice.
  Now we have been trying to get people to testify. Ninety-two people 
have fled the country or taken the fifth amendment, 92. Can my 
colleagues imagine that many people, 92, fleeing the country or taking 
the fifth amendment, many very close friends of the President who 
worked in the administration? They would not talk.
  Now we have four people who are willing to talk, and they want 
immunity in order to talk, and the Justice Department has said they 
have no objection to immunity, and yet 19 of the Democrats on my 
committee, every single Democrat, voted against immunity. They have 
erected a stone wall against the facts so the American people will not 
know what is going on.
  The American people have a right to know whether our foreign policy 
was altered or sold by anybody in the administration.

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