[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 33 (Wednesday, March 22, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1176]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS NEED TO BE ENFORCED

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, it is a good question. Just exactly who is 
subservient to whom? The Vice President of the United States had as one 
of his principal campaign fund raisers an agent of the Chinese 
government.
  My colleagues, it is true that our children are vulnerable, but not 
to law-abiding citizens who obey existing laws. They are vulnerable to 
those who refuse to enforce existing laws and those who would break 
campaign laws. Yet our friends from the left will get up and talk about 
campaign finance reform.
  I would remind this body again, to have the Clinton-Gore gang talk 
about campaign finance reform is akin to Bonnie and Clyde at the height 
of their crime spree holding a press conference demanding tougher 
penalties for bank robbers. It is absurd.
  We embrace the Constitution, we embrace enforcing and abiding by 
existing law, and all the laws in the world make no difference if they 
are not obeyed.

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