[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 109 (Wednesday, August 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7182]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               RENO THREE

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the House Government Reform and 
Oversight Committee asked questions about a scandal that is even more 
serious than Filegate, even more outrageous than Travelgate, and even 
more troubling than Whitewater.
  This Oversight Committee asked the Justice Department's two top 
investigators why an independent counsel has not been named to 
investigate mountains of evidence that the Democrat Party took nearly 
$3 million in illegal campaign contributions from Communist China.
  One would think that the penetration of the American electoral system 
by a foreign power, a communist dictatorship with 13 nuclear missiles 
aimed at our shores no less, would not be a partisan issue.
  What are we to conclude from the other side's total lack of interest 
in getting to the bottom of this shocking scandal? What are we to 
conclude from the other side's silence, total silence, in the face of 
FBI Director Louis Freeh and Justice Department investigator Charles 
LaBella's public pleas for an independent counsel to investigate this 
matter?
  I really would hate to even speculate.

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