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- CHINA'S NEWT?
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- (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House
- for 1 minute.)
- Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, today in China they are celebrating the
- first day of the lunar new year, the Year of the Pig, and we now find
- out from the New Yorker magazine that a big multinational pig is trying
- to feed over there the same way that pig has been trying to feed on the
- U.S. Congress. I guess the question is: Is Beijing becoming more like
- Washington, or Washington becoming more like Beijing?
- But what we learn today is Deng Xiaoping's daughter, Deng Maomao,
- also has a book contract with Mr. Murdoch. Mr. Murdoch seems to be
- wanting to try to get his TV station into China and has pulled all of
- the BBC news because it has much too much about human rights, which
- just really, really makes him upset, and has furthermore now cut this
- wonderful deal with Deng's daughter, who is supposed to be the closest
- to him, but of course there could not be any hanky-panky there.
- So, if anyone now asks what is the similarity between our Speaker,
- Deng Xiaoping's daughter and Mrs. Thatcher, we now know. They all have
- Rupert Murdoch book deals.
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