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




                       ARMING OF COMMUNIST CHINA

  (Mr. TANCREDO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TANCREDO. Mr. Speaker, the mantra of the Democrats this day has 
been gun control. But Mr. Speaker, it is very, very difficult to 
entrust this administration and that side of the aisle with gun control 
when they have been so unsuccessful with arms control.
  Many are calling the information revealed in the Cox Report the 
scandal of the century. There are two major scandals detailed in this 
impressive bipartisan report. There was a national security breakdown 
in the Energy Department labs, a breakdown that started in the 1970s 
and became nearly total beginning in 1993 under an administration that 
has never taken national security issues seriously.
  And there is an even bigger scandal, the effort to downplay, to cover 
up and to thwart investigations into the first scandal when it became 
known in 1995. I repeat, the bigger of the two scandals is not that 
China successfully spied on the U.S., but the almost incomprehensible 
reaction to that fact when it was discovered in 1995.
  The biggest scandal of all is the arming of the communist Chinese 
after hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign contributions to the 
Democratic Party.

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