[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 109 (Wednesday, August 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7184]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE FIRESTORM COMETH

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, a lot of people criticize the current 
scandal, the most visible, the most popular scandal at the White House 
as being overblown and overdiscussed and so forth. I think perhaps that 
they have something to say. I think there is a lot of validity in that 
statement.
  I for one frankly am a lot more concerned about why the Chinese 
communists funneled into the Democrat National Party $3 million in 
illegal contributions during the last election. What was that all 
about? And why suddenly after that did we give them unprecedented 
missile technology, transfers from Loral Corporation, whose CEO Bernie 
Schwartz gave $600,000 personally to the reelection efforts of the 
Democrats and the President.
  But this is something that is not just Republicans getting mad at 
Democrats. This is what the liberal-leaning, Democrat-endorsing New 
York Times said, that Charles LaBella, who has been leading the 
Department of Justice campaign finance investigation, has now advised 
Attorney General Janet Reno that under both the mandatory and 
discretionary provisions of the Independent Counsel Act, she must 
appoint an outside prosecutor to take over this.
  I agree with Mr. LaBella. It is time to have an outside prosecutor to 
figure out why 3 million illegal contribution dollars went to the 
Democrat Party.

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