[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 65 (Wednesday, May 20, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H3494]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              HIGH TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS TO COMMUNIST CHINA

  (Mr. COOKSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. COOKSEY. Mr. Speaker, it might very well be impossible to prove 
the quid pro quo which seems obvious to all observers, Chinese money to 
the Democrats in exchange for high technology to the Chinese.
  But whether the Clinton administration changed the policy to give 
high technology to the Chinese because they were taking millions of 
dollars in illegal campaign donations or not, the scandal is still the 
same.
  Why did the Clinton administration go against its own Defense 
Department and the Department of State in giving sensitive technology 
to Communist China? I would like to insist on this point. Taking 
campaign money from Communist China is a crime, a serious crime. Crimes 
have been committed. But giving high technology to Communist China and 
endangering national security is an even more serious crime.
  The first subverts democracy and is evidence of political corruption. 
But the second puts the lives of 265 million Americans at risk; and 
that, Mr. Speaker, is the biggest crime of all.

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