[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 83 (Tuesday, June 23, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4973]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               SCANDAL OVER TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS TO CHINA

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, recent reports that Loral Corporation may 
have given highly sensitive information to the Communist Chinese 
Government during April and May of 1996 and harmed national security 
are alarming, especially given India's decision last month to conduct 
nuclear tests, partly in response to China's role in helping Pakistan 
with its nuclear weapons program.
  Then we find out that Bernard Schwartz, the CEO of Loral, was the 
largest single donor to the Democrat party during the 1996 election 
cycle. Loral, we know, was given a waiver by the Clinton administration 
in February of this year to export satellite technology to China, even 
though the Justice Department was in the middle of a criminal 
investigation of Loral for its last technology transfer.
  Many people want to know if Loral was given a waiver because its CEO 
gave the Democrat party $632,000 in 1996, and, of course, that would be 
nearly impossible to prove. But the real scandal, the real scandal, is 
our policy of giving China dual-use technology that is used in their 
space program and their military programs, from computers, to machines, 
to tools, to rocket technology. That is the biggest scandal of all.

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