James Traficant: “I believe if America would have investigated allegations in the Chinese meddling into our political system and to buying…”

“I believe if America would have investigated allegations in the Chinese meddling into our political system and to buying and spying on our military secrets and technology, if we would have spent as much money on that as we spent on investigating Microsoft, I think our Nation would be safer. But I have a question here today to the Congress. I wonder if the Central Intelligence Agency or if our intelligence community has basically said to Congress, ``be careful about China.'' I do not know. We are going to take up a big vote here later this week, and I believe we are going to go ahead and ratify and approve a massive trade agreement with China. I do not know how much we are spending. But, quite frankly, what do they advise us? What has our intelligence community taken the time to educate us about where we are going when I read that China just purchased 24 cruise missiles from Russia, and the Pentagon spokesman, on conditions of anonymity said, any American Naval vessel without the protection of a carrier fleet is ``dead meat.''”