[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 112 (Tuesday, August 3, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H6849]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




NAIVETE OR CRASS PARTISAN, POLITICAL ADVANTAGE THROUGH SCANDALOUS FUND-
                                RAISING?

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 19, 1999, the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Hayworth) is 
recognized during morning hour debates for 5 minutes.
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Maryland spoke 
eloquently of the dreams of all Americans, and it is with a sense of 
profound anxiety that I come to the floor today to talk about those 
elements in our world that could defer those dreams.
  The lead story, Mr. Speaker, in today's Washington Times reads as 
follows: ``China Tests New Long Range Missile.'' Bill Gertz, the 
byline, he writes and I quote, ``China successfully test-fired its 
newest long-range missile yesterday amid heightened tensions with 
Taiwan over pro-independence remarks by the island's President. The CIA 
believes the DF-31 test launched from a base in central China will be 
the first new Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile to incorporate 
stolen U.S. warhead design and missile technology, according to U.S. 
officials.''
  Mr. Speaker, when I read those words this morning, I could not help 
but reflect on the revelations that have rocked our Nation's capital 
and our entire country in the past several months. The fund-raising 
scandals, the apparent absence of concern at our Nation's nuclear 
laboratories, the wholesale theft of our nuclear secrets and the 
apparent cooperation of some in the private sector, and some in alleged 
government service to make it so.
  Mr. Speaker, what perverse pride can anyone derive from these 
revelations? Is there actually pride on the part of the Clinton-Gore 
gang and their fund-raisers this morning? Is there actually pride in 
the heart of Bernard Schwartz, the leading giver to the Democratic 
National Committee, whose firm, Loral, gave technology to the Communist 
Chinese? C. Michael Armstrong, the one-time CEO of Hughes, another 
company that gave technology to the Communist Chinese, can he feel 
pride at these revelations this morning?
  Is our national security advisor, Sandy Berger, who sat on this 
information and apparently withheld it from the highest levels of 
government, does he feel pride this morning that our Nation is at risk?
  How proud former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary must be this morning, 
with her socialist utopian vision of sharing our nuclear technology 
with those who oppose us in the world. And finally and sadly, how proud 
the President and Vice President of the United States must be.
  Mr. Speaker, our constitutional republic has survived scores of 
scoundrels and scalawags, but to have those at the highest level of 
government speak of a strategic partnership with Communist China and 
then have it revealed in the fullness of time just what that strategic 
partnership meant, crass partisan, political advantage through 
scandalous fund-raising that has led us to this sorry state of affairs. 
If it is not by design then at least by naivete, and that leads us to 
another item in this morning's paper.
  William F. Buckley writes in his column and I quote, ``With reference 
to North Korea, specifically American intelligence has said that as 
things are now going the North Koreans plan to test the Taepodong II, 
an advanced version of the T-1 missile that rocked the world when last 
August it soared right over the island of Japan. T-2 is designed to do 
better than T-1, and better means that it could land a nuclear payload 
in Alaska or in Hawaii.''
  I recall the words and the intent of this administration by former 
Defense Secretary William Perry who lectured new Members of Congress on 
the necessity of giving, giving nuclear reactors to the outlaw nation, 
that is North Korea, and worse it has been reported in our press that 
the State Department kept from Congress information that the core of 
one of those reactors is now missing.
  Mr. Speaker, when will we awaken to the threat that has been created 
by naivete or crass political advantage that some have sought in direct 
contravention and dereliction of the oath of office which we all take 
as constitutional officials to provide for the common defense, to 
defend the people and the Constitution of the United States?
  Mr. Speaker, when will the partisan press awaken to these 
revelations?

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