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James Traficant: “Chinese money must be an aphrodisiac because it seems that everybody is jumping in bed with the Reds here. Check it out.…”

On the recordMarch 23, 1999
Chinese money must be an aphrodisiac because it seems that everybody is jumping in bed with the Reds here. Check it out. Even though China tortures their own citizens, China threatens their neighbors, and China spies on everybody, China has announced that they have great support for membership in the World Trade Organization. In fact, China says, to boot, ``Even the United States Trade Representative supports, number one, lower tariffs for China and, number two, China's membership in the World Trade Organization.'' Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. The Trade Representative will not wise up until there is a Red Army tank shoved right up their foreign policy. I yield back a $70 billion projected trade deficit with China, who is buying intercontinental ballistic missiles and pointing them right at us.

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Criticizing U.S. trade policy and relations with China during a House floor speech.

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