[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 78 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H4574-H4575]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 PRESIDENT SHOULD CANCEL TRIP TO CHINA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Radanovich). Under the Speaker's 
announced policy of January 21, 1997, the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Rohrabacher) is recognized during morning hour debates for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, I know that all of us are committed, 
along with the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Maloney) to a fair 
census. I am glad to hear that she did not mention the words ``census 
sampling,'' because of course we know that what that really means is 
guesstimating.
  Many people who are talking about the census nowadays are the same 
ones who suggested that we have a thing called the ``Motor-Voter Bill'' 
in California, which as we found out was nothing more than the 
``Illegal Alien Voter Registration Act.'' So we are all dedicated to an 
accurate census. That is why we want people specifically counted as 
they always have been in the past.
  Mrs. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. I yield to the gentlewoman from New York.
  Mrs. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman mentioned that 
the sampling technique is guessing, yet the National Academy of 
Sciences has come out with a report that was ordered really by 
President Bush saying that it is the most scientific method, most 
accurate method to count Americans.
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, it is called guesstimating.
  Mrs. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, that is what the gentleman 
calls it. They call it ``accuracy.''
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, we do not need some 
pointy-headed intellectual at some university, who may or may not be an 
ultra liberal receiving some kind of a grant for study, to tell me that 
it is more scientific to guesstimate who lives over there, rather than 
to walk over there and count each person individually as has been the 
case in every past census.
  Mr. Speaker, every time we change these rules and allow these 
standards what we end up with is the average American gets hurt. And 
what we did with motor-voter is we permitted massive numbers of illegal 
aliens to vote and degrade the voting of the American population.
  Mr. Speaker, back to the issue of the day, however. Yesterday, human 
rights activists came to the United States Capitol and I was privileged 
to join them in underscoring the support for the people of Tibet, 
especially in light of the President's upcoming visit to Communist 
China.
  Mr. Speaker, many concerns were raised yesterday, and today we 
finally got the answer to those concerns of yesterday. In a letter 
published in today's Washington Post, the Communist Chinese Ambassador 
to the United States claims all the uproar about Tibet is simply based 
on misunderstandings, misunderstandings of the facts. And he gave us a 
couple of misconceptions here in his letter to the Washington Post 
today. This is the Communist Chinese Ambassador.
  Misconception number one is that China actually occupies Tibet. That 
this was a region that was liberated peacefully through an agreement 
reached between the Central Government and the local government in 
1951. Those are his words.
  Misconception number two, that there are a great number of Han 
Chinese who have immigrated to Tibet. He claims some professionals from 
the coastal areas do go to Tibet to offer expertise to develop the 
local economy, but after completing their tenure most return home.
  And finally there is a misconception that the Tibetan culture and 
religion are being destroyed. When we have this type of honest 
dialogue, or the level of honesty in this dialogue, it makes us wonder 
why our President of the United States is going there to represent the 
people of the United States to try to give us hope that there is any 
type of an agreement with gangsters who make a mockery of the truth 
like that.
  In fact, what we have got today in Communist China with the 
President's upcoming visit, here he has chosen the 10th anniversary of 
the massacre of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square to go visit 
these gangsters, even though the human rights record has not improved, 
even though the belligerence of Communist China is in evidence in its 
smuggling of technologies of mass destruction to volatile parts of the 
world, even Libya and Iran.
  Today in the Capital City's other newspaper, the Washington Times, 
there is a headline story about the Communist Chinese sending weapons 
of mass destruction technology to Libya and Iran, these terrorist 
states. Mr. Speaker, I quote this article, ``Libyan leader Moammar 
Gadhafi has said that he would like to have a missile system capable of 
attacking New York.''
  Mr. Speaker, this is not the time to enter into a discussion with 
these type of gangsters who control the government in China. I would 
suggest, especially when we have evidence that American companies have 
been using American technology to upgrade Communist Chinese missiles, 
that this is bad enough, and now we hear that they are using American 
technology that could be shifted to terrorists like Gadhafi in Libya 
who would be even more likely to use this technology to kill millions 
of Americans.
  Mr. Speaker, I suggest that the President is not watching out for the 
best interests of our country and he should cancel his trip to China.

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