[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 107 (Wednesday, September 13, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H7505]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
LORAL CORPORATION
(Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, we all remember the fund-raising scandal that
the President and the Democrats got themselves into in 1996, foreign
money and money laundering. But perhaps the worst part was the apparent
influence of the People's Republic of China.
We all remember that the Loral Corporation which leaked sensitive
missile data to China was a major Democratic contributor that year.
In fact, Bernard Schwartz, the president and CEO of that company, the
largest single contributor to the DNC, was recommended in 1998 as the
focus of an independent counsel investigation to find out if there was
a connection between donations and technology transfers.
Well, one would think they would learn their lesson. But we found out
last week that Mr. Schwartz is again giving huge amounts of money to
the Democrats.
FEC reports show that he has given an average of $40,000 a month to
Democrats since January of 1999, most of it in unrestricted soft-money
donations.
I call on the Democrats to return these donations until we determine
once and for all what his role was in leaking sensitive missile data to
the Chinese.
This is not just a matter of ethical conduct. It is a matter of
national security.
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