[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 26, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H3612-H3613]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                BLAME AND THE CHINESE ESPIONAGE SCANDAL

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, with regard to the Chinese espionage 
scandal, I have heard the other side say over

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and over again; let us not overreact; let us not politicize this; there 
is plenty of blame to go around; it is Ronald Reagan's fault, and, of 
course, the ``everybody does it'' defense that we hear every single 
time wrongdoing by this administration is discovered. It is almost as 
though they have no interest in the real problem, our national 
security.
  This administration's real attention, its real interest, was raising 
campaign cash, avoiding blame, avoiding embarrassment, getting 
reelected. Change the subject, talk about guns, cigarettes, school 
uniforms. Let us do it for the children.
  If the Clinton administration had really wanted to do something to 
make the children of this Nation safer, they would have protected them 
from potential nuclear annihilation some day. That is what they should 
have been doing. Instead, they were raising campaign cash.

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