[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11928]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                       PLAUDITS TO COX COMMITTEE

  (Mr. COOKSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COOKSEY. Mr. Speaker, I think every single Member of this body 
owes a debt of gratitude to the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) my 
Republican colleague. The gentleman from California headed the Select Committee on China and has been an 
outstanding example of even temperament, fair-mindedness and 
bipartisanship in his handling of the House investigation of Chinese 
espionage at our nuclear laboratories.
  Although there is considerable evidence that the administration has 
been selectively leaking the most sensational stories to the New York 
Times, the Cox Committee has been a tomb. No one has accused Chairman 
Cox or anyone on his staff of leaking information about his long-
awaited report, an extraordinary achievement in Washington.
  Thus far, public statements by the gentleman from California have 
been judicious and moderate and he has bent over backwards not to be 
partisan, even though most of the espionage occurred during the periods 
1994 and 1995. Instead, he has focused on what can be done about the 
problems at our Energy Department laboratories.
  Chris Cox, well done. The American people have benefitted greatly 
from your outstanding work on this extremely important issue.

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