[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 109 (Wednesday, August 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H7182-H7183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     VIOLATED CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS

  (Mr. COOK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COOK. Mr. Speaker, I am not in the habit of always quoting from 
the New York Times editorials because they are often reliably hostile 
to conservative values and to the Republican Party. But I think that is 
what makes this New York Times July 23 editorial so remarkable, which I 
invite everyone to consider carefully.
  Charles LaBella, Attorney General Janet Reno's hand-picked 
investigator to oversee the campaign finance probe,

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has joined FBI Director Louis Freeh in calling for an independent 
counsel to find out the truth about Communist Chinese money funneled 
into the Democratic Party during the 1996 elections.
  Of all the independent counsel matters currently under investigation, 
this particular allegation is perhaps the most serious one of all. If 
one party systematically violates the campaign finance laws, 
compromised national security with respect to our relations with 
Communist China, and then lied about doing any such thing, that is an 
attack on democracy.
  If Janet Reno continues to block this investigation, in the words of 
the New York Times, ``this will go down as a black mark against justice 
every bit as historic as any in our history.''

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