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Jack Kingston: when the White House was having organized fundraising events in the Lincoln bedroom for Democrat fundraising purposes…

On the recordSeptember 30, 1997
when the White House was having organized fundraising events in the Lincoln bedroom for Democrat fundraising purposes, when it was raised by Republicans, Democrats said, ``You are being partisan.'' When the Vice President of the United States raised thousands and thousands of dollars in a Buddhist temple from Buddhist monks and nuns, who had to take vows of poverty but they came up with $5,000 each, we were called antireligious. Now, because of some very questionable voting tactics in the California race, we are being dragged into this thing on a race count. You know, fair elections are not the domain of the party that lost, it belongs to everybody, Democrats and Republicans. We have a situation here where files have been subpoenaed. The legislation that we are having to pass today, which I hope all the Democrats join us in voting for, simply says give us the files so we can get to the bottom of this. We want to know whether it is fair or not, because it is not a Democrat or Republican issue.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing fundraising practices and election fairness during a debate on related legislation.

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