[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12130]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



        LET US GET THE COMMUNIST CHINESE OUT OF OUR NUCLEAR LABS

  (Mr. HAYES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HAYES. Madam Speaker, 2 weeks ago the long-awaited Cox report was 
released. I keep this chart because I think it is important for the 
American people to realize that while this administration was 
drastically cutting our defense budget, we were giving away our nuclear 
secrets to the Chinese. This should not, cannot and must not happen as 
we begin the debate on the all important defense budget today in that 
bill.
  Because the administration leaks to the New York Times, we have come 
to know one of the most stunning bombshells about theft of our 
sensitive nuclear secrets by the Communist Chinese at our nuclear lab. 
We also know that the other side of the aisle is in mark contrast to 
the statements of the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) in this 
unanimous report. The partisan statements have begun while pleading 
with Republicans not to be partisan.
  Let us go back to the Vice President's reaction to the loss of our 
most sensitive nuclear weapons information. First words out of his 
mouth were to blame someone else, Ronald Reagan, and the Secretary of 
Energy, Bill Richardson, has cautioned over and over again let us not 
over react.
  Madam Speaker, let us do react. It is time that we got the Communist 
Chinese out of our labs, protected our secrets and protect this 
country. We find out the absolute worst possible case has come to pass, 
the Communist Chinese penetration of our nuclear laboratories is total. 
We knew about it since 1995. We have done virtually nothing about it.
  Madam Speaker, let us do something now. Our future is at stake.

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