[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 26, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H3611-H3612]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  THE BEST SECURITY IS A BRIGHT LIGHT

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, my parents told me that the best security 
is a bright light. Americans want to know if the Chinese nuclear 
arsenal was built on the genius of American scientists and on the backs 
of the American taxpayers.

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  Our counterintelligence at the Department of Energy has been a 
specific concern of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for 
some time, and we all deserve answers.
  This Congress must pursue investigative public hearings based on 
information provided by the Cox Committee that examines Chinese-
directed espionage against the United States, including efforts to 
steal nuclear and military secrets; that will examine Chinese-directed 
covert action type activities conducted against the United States, such 
as the use of agents to influence and efforts to subvert or otherwise 
manipulate the U.S. political process.
  Mr. Speaker, Motel 6, I think, has a motto: We'll keep the lights 
on.'' Unfortunately, the White House has turned the lights off, and now 
our national security is at stake.
  America deserves answers, and that is what they shall get. I yield 
back to America all the lights they may need and any national security 
we have left.

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