from california, mr.
rohrabacher, for 30 minutes.
mr. rohrabacher: thank you very
much.
mr. speaker, first let me
suggest that i join with my
colleagues in honoring the
memory of chuck colson, a man
who also meant a lot to me, as
an individual and those of us
who come from california and
remember richard nixon coming
out there and remember the great
work that chuck colson did for
our prison community in
california, we're very grateful
for that.
and he taught us really the true
meaning of christian compassion
and i personally was a
beneficiary of that knowledge
and that spirit that he helped
us understand and development
within our open hearts.
so i would -- our own hearts.
so i would like to join my
colleagues in that.
but today i rise to call
attention to the hundreds of
millions of public dollars we
have spent and continue to spend
in the form of foreign aid to
the people's republic of china.
better known as communist china
to those of us who have spent
years trying to fight that