Dan Burton: “Mr. Speaker, we have not talked much about our national security. The Chinese have a $68 billion trade surplus; and…”

“Mr. Speaker, we have not talked much about our national security. The Chinese have a $68 billion trade surplus; and after this agreement is signed, if it passes today and passes the Senate and is signed by the President, they are going to have more of a surplus, and that is more money with which to buy rope to hang us with. Let us look at what the Chinese have done and what they are doing. They stole our nuclear secrets. They are now capable, with our secrets they stole from the Los Alamos and Livermore Laboratories, they are able to build a mobile launch missile carrier, a rocket that can fire halfway around the world and can split into 10 parts with our W-88 warhead and hit 10 cities and kill over 50 million people, and we have no defense for it. We have been cutting our defense budget. They now have access to both ends of the Panama Canal, one of the things that is most important to our commerce. They are going to control the Panama Canal. Just yesterday we found out they are going to control part of the Suez Canal and probably all of it. They signed a 30-year agreement with Egypt to have Port Said controlled by them, in effect, because they are going to control the shipping port there. They are building the largest army in the world. They have the largest standing army in the world, and it is going to get bigger, and we are going to pay for it.”