[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23685]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              VICE PRESIDENT JEOPARDIZES NATIONAL SECURITY

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, I am deeply troubled today to learn that 
Vice President Gore may have broken the law and jeopardized United 
States national security.
  Mr. Speaker, U.S. weapons proliferation law requires that the 
Congress be notified of the terms of the letter of agreement which Mr. 
Gore signed with Russian Prime Minister Chernomyrdin regarding Russia's 
nuclear cooperation with Iran, a known terrorist nation.
  What is worse is that, as a direct result of the secret agreement 
between Mr. Gore and the Prime Minister of Russia, Russia evaded U.S. 
sanctions against weapons proliferation.
  Even the Secretary of State admitted that without this signed 
agreement, ``Russia's conventional arms sales to Iran would have been 
subject to sanctions based on various provisions of our laws.''
  Mr. Speaker, it is appalling to me and to the American people that 
this type of deception and deceit has become so commonplace in this 
administration.
  The flagrant deceit and illegal agreement made by the Vice President 
may have put our national security in deep jeopardy.

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