[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 130 (Thursday, September 30, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H9027]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE WHEN A DEMOCRATIC MAYOR HONORS COMMUNIST RULE IN 
                    THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA?

  (Mr. SCHAFFER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, 223 years ago, the Declaration of 
Independence was signed in Philadelphia, but just 5 days ago there was 
a different sort of revolt on the steps of Philadelphia's city hall. A 
crowd of citizens gathered there to protest a far more pernicious kind 
of tyranny than that which confronted the Founders themselves. It seems 
that the city's mayor, Ed Rendell, convened a, quote, celebration to 
honor and commemorate 50 years of Communist rule in the People's 
Republic of China; that, according to the Philadelphia Enquirer.
  Now, Mayor Rendell is a Democrat; in fact, he is a prominent one. Do 
we think other Democrats denounced Rendell's celebration of Communist 
rule? Did they reprimand him for praising the very regime which today 
points 13 nuclear missiles at his country? Did they cry out about the 
communist destruction of human dignity and human rights? No.
  Last week, Democrats made Rendell chairman of their party, head of 
the Democratic National Committee.
  I am not making this up, Mr. Speaker.
  What is next? Will Chairman Rendell print his party's platform in 
little red books?

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