[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 73 (Tuesday, June 9, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4248]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS NEVER GIVE MONEY FOR NOTHING

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, you have to look at Missilegate and ask 
yourself one question: Why? Why would the Chinese Communists give 
millions of dollars in campaign contributions to the Democrat party and 
not the Republican Party? What is it that the Chinese Communists want? 
What is it the Chinese Communist Government, what is their top 
priority, the one thing they desperately want that the Republicans do 
not want to let them have? Could it be high technology?
  The response from the other side is highly revealing. They say, 
``Well, Reagan and Bush did it, too,'' but did the Reagan and Bush 
administration give waiver authority to the Commerce Department? No. 
Did the Reagan and Bush administrations have monitoring systems in 
place to ensure that no technology was used for military purposes? Of 
course they did. Did the Reagan and Bush administrations take campaign 
money from the Chinese Communists? Of course not.
  And one thing to consider, the Chinese Communists never, never, never 
give money for nothing.

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