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Dana Rohrabacher: what started off as leaks about American corporations upgrading Communist Chinese rockets and missiles is today emerging…

On the recordMay 18, 1998
what started off as leaks about American corporations upgrading Communist Chinese rockets and missiles is today emerging as one of our country's worst national security scandals. What could be worse than American corporations using technology, paid for by the American taxpayer, to improve Communist Chinese missiles and rockets so they will have a better chance of striking the United States with nuclear weapons? What is worse than having government watchdogs go after companies engaged in this betrayal of the American people, and to have the prosecution of those responsible undercut by an executive action taken by none other than President Bill Clinton? What is worse than to find out that the executive that gave the missile technology to the Communist Chinese, as well as the Communist Chinese themselves, I might add, donated a million dollars to the President's reelection effort at the time the missile deal was in play? Mr. Speaker, the American people have bent over backwards so many times to give their President the benefit of the doubt.…
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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Addressing national security concerns related to American corporations aiding Chinese missile technology.

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