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Dana Rohrabacher: reclaiming my time, we do not need some pointy-headed intellectual at some university, who may or may not be an ultra…

On the recordJune 16, 1998
reclaiming my time, we do not need some pointy-headed intellectual at some university, who may or may not be an ultra liberal receiving some kind of a grant for study, to tell me that it is more scientific to guesstimate who lives over there, rather than to walk over there and count each person individually as has been the case in every past census. Mr. Speaker, every time we change these rules and allow these standards what we end up with is the average American gets hurt. And what we did with motor-voter is we permitted massive numbers of illegal aliens to vote and degrade the voting of the American population. Mr. Speaker, back to the issue of the day, however. Yesterday, human rights activists came to the United States Capitol and I was privileged to join them in underscoring the support for the people of Tibet, especially in light of the President's upcoming visit to Communist China. Mr. Speaker, many concerns were raised yesterday, and today we finally got the answer to those concerns of yesterday. In a letter published in today's Washington Post, the Communist Chinese Ambassador to the United States claims all the uproar about Tibet is simply based on misunderstandings, misunderstandings of the facts. And he gave us a couple of misconceptions here in his letter to the Washington Post today. This is the Communist Chinese Ambassador. Misconception number one is that China actually occupies Tibet.…
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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Addressing concerns about Tibet and the implications of the President's visit to China.

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