The late 1990s were a time when politicians in the US were concerned about Chinese espionage (you may recall the case of physicist Wen Ho Lee). A committee of nine congressmen (the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, if you must know) wrote a report on the matter. The ranking Democrat was Norm Dicks. Who was the only slightly less phallically surnamed Republican head of the committee? He would later go on to chair the SEC.
Christopher Cox