[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 71 (Thursday, June 4, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4069]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 IT IS TIME FOR CONGRESS TO EXAMINE THE THREAT TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY

  (Mr. ROGAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGAN. Mr. Speaker, India and then Pakistan conducted nuclear 
tests. China transferred nuclear technology to Pakistan and Iran. Now 
we learn the United States Government may have given missile technology 
to communist China, the same country that transferred nuclear 
technology to Pakistan and Iran. But rest assured, we are told, the 
Chinese communist government has assured us they will not do that any 
more.
  It is time for Congress to examine this threat to our national 
security. It is time for the White House to explain how it is that 
transferring authority for satellite waivers from the State Department 
to the Commerce Department was in our national interest. The White 
House should respond to a recent Pentagon report that concluded that 
``Our national security has been harmed'' as a result of these 
transfers arising out of China's rocket failure in February 1996.
  The President should respond to these questions, Mr. Speaker, before 
the next nuclear test takes the world by surprise again.

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