SUPPORT
STEEL RESOLUTION AND STAND UP FOR LEGAL TRADE
October 15, 1998
Mr. Speaker, another chapter on American steel. We have already read Chapter
11, Chapter 13, and we are about to read a stone cold Chapter 7 due to illegal
trade, dumping steel in America below cost, destroying families, destroying
companies, destroying jobs, destroying pensions, and nobody is doing one
thing about it.
We pass laws here, and the law is not being enforced. There is such a glut
of steel there is a fire sale in America. America is burning. And while
America burns, the administration is fiddling doing nothing.
Today you will have an opportunity to vote on a resolution. I predict that
there will be an attempt to bring a softer resolution than mine. Today is
the time to stand up for legal trade.
PINK SLIPS TO
AMERICAN WORKERS WHILE WASHINGTON BAILS OUT ASIA AND BRAZIL
October 14, 1998
Mr. Speaker, Merrill Lynch just cut 3,000 jobs. Ameritech cut 5,000 jobs.
Raytheon cut 14,000 jobs. Motorola cut 15,000 jobs. AT&T cut 20,000
jobs. Boeing cut 30,000 jobs. Jobs lost. Jobs lost. And Japan, Russia,
Brazil and Korea are
destroying our steel industry and getting away with it. Illegal trade,
getting away with it.
Unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen. While Washington is bailing out Asia
and Brazil, American workers are getting the pink slips because of in
fact illegal trade from people we are giving loans to.
Beam me up. We were not elected to the United Nations. We were elected
to the Congress of the United States and Congress should take care of
America first, before there is not a job left here.
I yield back the balance of any jobs left in this country.
BAILOUT FOR RICH
FAT CATS ON WALL STREET
October 13, 1998
Mr. Speaker, check this out. A bunch of rich, fat cats on Wall Street,
through their hedge fund, gambled $100 billion on the Russian ruble with
borrowed American money.
We can figure it out, they lost big time and the Fed had to bail them
out saying if they did not, there could possibly be a depression in America.
Unbelievable, is it not? Think about it. Bailout for Russia, bailout for
Japan, bailout for Mexico, bailout for rich fat cats gambling with our
money, and now we are talking about an $18 billion bailout for Brazil
and Russia, who are dumping steel illegally in America destroying our
economy.
Beam me up.
What is next? Foreign aid for China? I do not think Congress will wise
up until Uncle Sam needs a bailout. I yield back whatever money is left.
IMF FUNDING
October 12, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the White House said, give the International Monetary Fund
$18 billion more, or we will shut the government down. Take it and like
it, Congress. Shut up and pass it, Congress.
Enough is enough. When will the Congress grow a backbone? What is going
on here, Mr. Speaker? I say if that is the deal, shut the government down.
You know not one American will be hurt. We can retroactively take care
of them. But I am not for one more penny for the international monetary
slush fund.
We give them the money. They buy Chinese products with it. Foreign leaders
steal it, and then they vote against us at the United Nations 90 percent
of the time.
Beam me up. If we are going to flush another $18 billion down the toilet,
then push the handle, Congress, and flush it in America.
I yield back the balance of anything worth flushing with the International
Monetary Fund.
AMERICAN TAXPAYERS
SUBSIDIZING FOREIGN ECONOMIES
WHILE THEY DENY AMERICAN PRODUCTS
October 9, 1998
Madam Speaker, let us see if this makes some sense: Foreign banks all
over the world make bad loans knowingly to prop up their falling economies
hoping against hope to salvage
their systems. Then their businesses go belly up. They default on their
loans, the banks fail, and then the foreign banks dial 911 to Uncle Sam
for more money. The International Monetary Fund then calls Uncle Sam and
says: `If you don't make these countries and these foreign banks any more
loans, they won't buy your products.'
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. When American taxpayers are subsidizing foreign
economies and they are denying American products, we need a proctologist
to give us some counseling.
SOMETHING IS WRONG
WITH THIS POLICY
October 7, 1998
Mr. Speaker, in America we have record trade deficits, record bankruptcies,
record debt, consolidations, downsizing, more American jobs keep going
overseas, a schizophrenia stock market, all symptoms of a major economic
problem in America.
After all this, the experts say American taxpayers must keep sending more
money to the International Monetary Fund to prop up foreign countries
to avert disaster. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.
When American dollars end up in the pockets of foreign politicians who
then vote against America at the United Nations, something is wrong with
this policy, very wrong. I say these foreign countries do not need American
taxpayer dollars. They need reform. Think about it.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back what economy we have left.
TAXPAYER FUNDS
SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND BAILOUTS
October 5, 1998
Mr. Speaker, Russia got $20 billion, Asia got over $100 billion, and now
International Monetary Fund wants a $30 billion bailout for Brazil. That
is right, the same Brazil that illegally dumps millions of tons of steel
in America, below the production cost, destroying American jobs and American
families.
Unbelievable. Think about it. Bailout for Russia, they sell missiles to
our enemy; bailout to Asia and Japan, they rip us off with illegal trade;
bailout to Brazil, they destroy American jobs. What is next, a bailout
for Saddam Hussein?
We are not playing monopoly down here. These are taxpayer dollars. Enough
is enough. Last I heard it was Uncle Sam, not Uncle Sucker. I yield back
the balance of the hard-working jobs that the steel industry is losing.
GENOCIDE IN KOSOVO
October 1, 1998
Mr. Speaker, once again genocide has reared its ugly head. Serbian President
Milosevic is brutally exterminating ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Women,
children, even the elderly are being slaughtered. After all this, France
says, and I quote, `We must send a strong message.'
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. The last I heard, NATO did not work for the Western
Union. It is time for NATO to do their job.
It is time for France to step up once in a while. It is time for Europe
to help us out, and it is time for independence in Kosovo.
One last thing, Mr. Speaker. Milosevic must be stopped. It is about time
for France to do their job, too.
PAYING TRIBUTE
TO FORGOTTEN BASEBALL HEROES
September 28, 1998
Mr. Speaker, congratulations to `Big Mac McGwire' and `Slamming Sammy
Sosa.' Their achievements and their character are in fact role models
for all of America's youth.
Today I rise, however, to pay tribute to 2 sort of forgotten past baseball
heroes. Josh Gibson of the old Negro leagues hit 85 home runs in the early
1930s. Thank God it was recognized and he was placed into the Hall of
Fame. The other forgotten man is the kid from Fargo. He stood right next
to Babe Ruth for 37 years. Two-time MVP, home run king, and a good person,
Roger Maris.
I say to my colleagues, it is time for baseball to do the right thing
like they did with Josh Gibson; it is time to put the kid from Fargo,
Roger Maris, in the Hall of Fame. Sammy and Big Mac showed just what a
tremendous achievement Roger Maris and Josh Gibson had, in fact, achieved.
AMERICA'S WORKERS
ARE SICK AND TIRED OF FAST TRACK
September 25, 1998
Mr. Speaker, American workers are sick and tired of fast track. Take today's
fast track, for example, another fast track that will send more American
factories, more American investment, and more American jobs overseas,
this time to Central America.
In return, America will get two used Ford pick-up trucks, another 50 tons
of heroin and cocaine, and three baseball players, to be named later.
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. Washington does not need more lobbyists and lawyers
to advise Congress. I honestly believe that a proctologist is in order
down here. I yield back whatever common sense is left.
ILLEGAL TRADE
PRACTICES BY THE CHINESE BALLOONS THEIR TRADE SURPLUS
September 24, 1998
Mr. Speaker, China's trade surplus has ballooned to over $1 billion a
week, and China is doing it illegally: prison labor, slave wages at 17
cents an hour, illegal dumping, trade barriers. When confronted, China
thumbs their nose right in our faces.
In fact, they now say the real trade deficit in America is only pennies
on the dollar with China. I ask today, who is teaching those communist
accountants? The Internal Revenue Service?
Beam me up.
Mr. Speaker, I say this: Congress should stop coddling China. This is
not about trade anymore. It is about national security.
And a communist nation is ripping off Uncle Sam.
CONGRESS DOES
NOT NEED FAST TRACK
September 23, 1998
Mr. Speaker,
America has a $60 million trade deficit with Japan, $50 billion with China,
a $24 billion deficit with Canada, $20 plus billion with Mexico. The bleeding
goes on and on, good-paying jobs lost by the thousands every week, every
month.
After all this, Congress wants more fast track trade programs. Unbelievable.
Congress does not need fast track; Congress needs a swift kick. What is
next, our sons and daughters applying for a job in Mexico? Beam me up.
Free trade, my ascot.
This is a free ride for people overseas being paid for by American workers
who are being retrained. Think about it.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
ARE NOT ON TRIAL
September 17, 1998
Mr. Speaker, first there was the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Dan Burton),
then the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Paul McHale), now our great
chairman, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Henry Hyde).
Let us tell it like it is. The same White House that destroyed Billy Dale,
the same White House that called Monica Lewinsky a liar, the same White
House that abandoned Lonnie Guinier is on the attack.
It is time to ask, Congress: How many files of American citizens were
illegally transferred from the FBI to the White House and who ordered
it? Are you on the list? Are you on the list? Am I on that list?
Enough is enough. The gentleman from Indiana, the gentleman from Pennsylvania,
and the gentleman from Illinois are not on trial. It is time for the House
of Representatives to tell the White House that their `spin to win' could
provoke `the move to remove.'
In America, the people govern. And America is a Nation of laws. I yield
back the balance of my time in the soap opera in Washington, D.C.
NEW REPORT INDICATES
WHAT U.S. STUDENTS DO NOT KNOW
September 16, 1998
Mr. Speaker, a new report says that American students just do not know:
70 percent do not know the name of the Vice President; 40 percent do not
know the three branches of government; 25 percent do not know what the
fifth amendment means; and only 2 percent know the name of the Chief Justice
of the United States Supreme Court.
On the other hand, 99 percent know Michael Jordan, 99 percent know Mark
McGwire, and 60 percent of American teenagers can cite all three names
of the Three Stooges. Is it any wonder American students rank 14th around
the world in achievement test scores?
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. It is a sad day when more teenagers know Monica
Lewinsky than Judge Rehnquist. And it is a sadder day when more teenagers
know Larry, Moe, and Curly than reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Think about that one.
AN AMERICA WITH
TWO LEGAL STANDARDS IS AN AMERICA WITH NO LEGAL STANDARDS
September 15, 1998
Mr. Speaker, if Joe Q. Citizen lied in a civil trial, he would be sued
for every penny. If Joe Q. Citizen lied to a Grand Jury, he would go to
jail. Lying is perjury. Perjury is a crime.
Now, having said that, what is going on here, Mr. Speaker? Does America
now have two legal standards, one for you, one for me; one for he, one
for she; one for generals, one for soldiers; one for Presidents, one for
residents?
Let us tell it like it is. Joe Q. Citizen cannot apologize, Joe Q. Citizen
is not censured, Joe Q. Citizen is prosecuted. And let me warn Congress:
An America with two legal standards is an America with no legal standards.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of the lives of all of the soldiers
that gave their lives fighting to preserve our freedom.
NEW MORAL STANDARD
TO REPLACE TRUTH AND JUSTICE
September 10, 1998
Madame Speaker, from the military to the Oval Office, America now has
a new moral standard: Don't ask, don't tell.
What's next, Madam Speaker? Can't ask, won't tell? Beam me up!
The First Amendment was never intended to hide truth. The First Amendment
was intended to promote and preserve truth and justice.
No wonder that values and morals in America have gone to hell. Just think
about it. Congress aided and abetted this whole process when it removed
God from our schools.
Now we face the test. The test of morals and values.
JANET RENO SHOULD
LEAD OR GET OUT OF THE WAY
September 9, 1998
Mr. Speaker, this Monica matter is serious, but it pales in comparison
to the reports that the White House was bribed with Chinese money. Unbelievable.
I don't know if it's true, but I know one thing. Janet Reno has turned
her back on both the American people and the Constitutuion.
Let's tell it like it is. Janet Reno should either lead or get out of
the way. I say to my colleagues, Monica is a fly on her face. This Chinese
money is a dragon eating her assets.
I say, Janet Reno has two decisions to make. One is to appoint an independent
counsel to scrutinize and investigate this madness, or number two, Janet
Reno should resign. I urge my colleagues to think about it.
I yield back the balance of any national security we may have left.
DRACULA OF CANVAS
LAST OFFERING
August 5, 1998
Mr. Speaker, David Bowie and Yoko Ono have sponsored Herman Nitsch's 6-day
Orgy Mystery Theater.
In the name of art, 3 bulls and 6 pigs will be castrated, disemboweled,
then eaten by a live audience.
A press release says Nitsch's students will not only paint with the fresh
blood of these sacrificed beasts but also their entrails.
Who is this guy teaching? Jeffrey Dahmer? Ridiculous. If that is not enough
to massage your Mona Lisa, art critics say this is an
improvement over this Dracula of canvas last offering.
My colleagues, this guy decorated beautiful, naked women with the bowels
of dead animals. Beam me up. What is next, folks?
The Lorena Bobbitt do-it-yourself art expo?
This art business is out of control. We have gone from Michelangelo and
Picasso to Herman Nitsch and Charlie Kruger. I yield
back any body parts left after this expo.
IF THE DRAGON
FITS, JANET RENO SHOULD COMMIT
August 4, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the media says, `If it is on the dress, he must confess.'
I say, `If the dragon fits, Janet Reno should commit.'
That is right, Janet Reno should appoint an independent counsel to investigate
this Chinagate business. Even FBI director Louis
Freeh agrees. But Janet Reno says, no, absolutely not. That is unbelievable
to me.
The Justice Department cries out for reform from the top to the bottom.
It is such a joke. If someone at the Justice Department
commits a crime, that crime is investigated by a peer, a friend, a buddy
in the same Justice Department.
Beam me up. From Waco, to Ruby Ridge, to China, to Filegate, it is out
of control. While Monica's dress may be a fly on her face, my colleagues,
I submit that China is a dragon eating our assets.
I yield back any justice left at the United States Justice Department.
SEVEN PERCENT
OF SCIENTISTS BELIEVE IN GOD
August 3, 1998
Mr. Speaker, a new report says only 7 percent of scientists believe in
God. That is right. And the reason they gave was that the scientists are
`super smart.' Unbelievable. Most of these absent-minded professors cannot
find the toilet.
Mr. Speaker, I have one question for these wise guys to constipate over:
How can some thing come from no thing?
And while they digest that, Mr. Speaker, let us tell it like it is. Put
these super-cerebral master debaters in some foxhole with bombs bursting
all around them, and I guarantee they will not be praying to Frankenstein.
Beam me up here. My colleagues, all the education in the world is worthless
without God and a little bit of common sense. And I yield back whatever
we have left.
THE QUESTIONABLE
VALUE OF NEW GOVERNMENT STUDIES
July 30, 1998
Madam Speaker, a new government study says if you are rich, you will live
longer. If you are educated, you will live longer. If you do not smoke,
you will probably live longer. If you can avoid cancer, you will live
longer.
No kidding, Sherlock. After $1 million, our government is telling us what
Grandma told us years ago: If you smoke, you will probably die; if you
do not get an education, you are not going to get a job; and if you do
not have a job, you are going to be poor and you are not going to eat.
Beam me up. What is next? Do we give these people more millions to tell
us if you commit suicide, you will not live long? If there is any consolation
to poor people in America who happen to smoke and do not have a job, I
never heard of anybody committing suicide by jumping out of a basement
window. There is some dignity in poverty. Poor people are God's people,
too.
Madam Speaker, I think we should slow down the money for these scientific
mind-benders.
REGULATIONS COST
THE TAXPAYERS BILLIONS
July 29, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the Lord's prayer is 66 words. The Gettysburg Address is
286 words. The Declaration of Independence is 1,322 words. U.S. regulations
on the sale of cabbage, that is right cabbage, is 27,000 words.
Now that is enough to give Hulk Hogan's dictionary a hernia. Check this
out. Regulatory red tape in America costs taxpayers $400 billion every
year, over $4,000 each year, every year, year in, year out, for every
family. Beam me up. With regulations like this, it is no wonder American
jobs keep moving overseas.
Mr. Speaker, I want to yield back all of the reg writing bureaucrats in
Washington, D.C. that never stood in an unemployment line.
AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY
July 22, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the World Bank makes loans to communists with American dollars.
The World Trade Organization regularly rips us off. The United Nations
sends American troops into war. That is right. We are not sending the
Peace Corps here, folks.
If that is not enough to compromise your Viagra, the United Nations has
created a world court with universal authority and jurisdiction. Unbelievable.
What is next, a world tax? Beam me up.
I say the Constitution of the United States should not be surrendered
to a bunch of international bureaucrats who regularly rule against us,
ladies and gentlemen.
Now, I do not know about you, but I did not pledge an oath to the charter
of the United Nations. I pledged an oath to the Constitution of the United
States and I think the Congress of the United States should put its foot
down before we become known as background music in some doctor's office.
I yield back any courage we have left.
AMERICA'S TRADE
DEFICIT
July 20, 1998
Mr. Speaker, America had a $15.7 billion record deficit in May. Billion.
The formula says for every $1 billion in deficits, America loses 20,000
jobs. So in May, check the formula, America lost 314,000 jobs. These are
not burger flippers or chicken skinners. These are manufacturing jobs,
folks. It is getting so bad China today has a 34 percent tariff on most
American products. After all this, the White House by whatever name you
want to call it once again wants most-favored-nation trade status for
China. Unbelievable.
Who are the trade advisers at the White House, a bunch of proctologists,
ladies and gentlemen? This is out of hand. Think about it. While Congress
is debating campaign finance reform that was promulgated because of illegal
Chinese contributions, the Chinese keep kicking our assets all the way
to the bank. Beam me up. We need a proctologist.
PROTECT AMERICA'S
BORDERS FROM DRUG SMUGGLERS
July 17, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the Drug Czar opposes it, the White House opposes it, Immigration
opposes it, the Pentagon opposes it. They all oppose the Traficant program
that authorizes but not mandates the use of troops to straighten out our
border. But they also have some interesting company. The Colombian drug
cartel is now reported opposing it. The Mexican drug lords oppose it and
fear it. The Golden Triangle heroin bosses for the first time are worried
about getting heroin into America.
The unusual thing about this program is, the only support I have is a
number of Members of Congress and the American people, in growing numbers.
Mr. Speaker, the White House will not get it until there is a six-foot
syringe full of heroin shoved up the asset of some bureaucrat at the White
House.
Beam me up. What about our children? What about addiction? How many years
do we lament the use of narcotics, and we allow it to come across our
border?
Only one of every three trucks are searched. I say on the House floor
today, a nuclear warhead could cross our border and we would not know
it.
I yield back any common sense left in the government of our country.
ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY
FOR TEACHING MORALS AND VALUES
July 15, 1998
Mr. Speaker, once in America, parents imparted their values and morals
to their children. Today, it is out with parents, in with computers. Some
even liken it to a Tower of Babble in each family room.
Check this out. Last month a woman gave birth on the Internet; and today
two teenagers announced, through their attorney, no less, that they will
surrender their virginity live on the Internet. Unbelievable. What is
next? A late-term abortion? How about an on-line sacrifice to Satan, folks?
Beam-me-up.com.
I say it is time for these computer companies to shove their software
up their hard drives live on the Internet.
One last thing, on a serious note. I believe America is in sad shape when
computers begin to replace parents in passing down our morals and values.
I yield back any common sense left in the country.
THE LAST THING
AMERICA SHOULD DO IS GIVE MORE TAX DOLLARS TO RUSSIA AND CHINA
July 14, 1998
Mr. Speaker, since 1992, Russia has gotten $35 billion from the World
Bank, the International Monetary Fund and foreign aid from the United
States of America. And reports say, check this, not one penny of all those
billions can be accounted for.
Now, if that is not enough to tax your vodka, the International Monetary
Fund today is giving Russia another $22 billion, to which the White House
said, `Russia needs the money, and this time they promise to behave.'
Promises, my ascot, Mr. Speaker. Russia promised before, and they sold
missiles to our enemies. China gets all our cash, and they have nuclear
warheads pointed at America.
Promises, promises, promises. My colleagues, the last thing America needs
is to give more money to China and Russia, who are building armies with
our tax dollars. But what do I know, I am still trying to figure out the
Tax Code.
CHINA GOBBLING
UP AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS
June 24, 1998
Mr. Speaker, on the very day that President Clinton leaves for China,
China thumbs their nose at America once again. Check this out.
Top U.S. officials say, and I quote: China stole a top secret device off
an American satellite. The theft was so serious, our National Security
Agency was forced to change all of our communication codes.
After all of this, the White House still wants a permanent Most Favored
Nation trade status for China.
Free trade my ascot, Mr. Speaker.
This is a free ride and a free for all for China, who is gobbling up our
national security secrets faster than the President can down a Big Mac
and a box of fries. Think about that.
Mr. Speaker, I want to yield back what secret codes, secrets, and national
security we have left.
THE GREAT SATAN
IS TURNING INTO THE GREAT SUCKER
June 23, 1998
Mr. Speaker, Russia wants another $10 billion, and President Clinton says,
`Okay with me,' even though the last $10 billion was stolen.
That is right. Russian leaders said, and I quote, `It's missing.'
In the words of Marvin Gaye, my colleagues, `What's going on?' Russian
leaders steal our money, and then with our money they build nuclear reactors
in India against our wishes. Then with our money they build missiles and
then sell the missiles to Iran who refers to Uncle Sam as `The Great Satan.'
Let me say this, Congress. If we give these people another $10 billion,
Uncle Sam will not be called Great Satan any more. We will be known as
the Great Sucker all around the world. Ronald Reagan must be absolutely
sick to his stomach today.
GOING FROM `SPEAK
SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK' TO
`TAKE THE FIFTH AND CARRY A TOOTHPICK'
June 22, 1998
Mr. Speaker, China blocks access to our products, sells missiles to our
enemies, and, if that is not enough to tax your migraine, the President
now wants to reward them with permanent most-favored-nation trade status.
I think it is time to tell it like it is. When it comes to China, we have
gone from `speak softly and carry a big stick' to `take the Fifth and
carry a toothpick.'
Beam me up.
I yield back now all of the new trucks that General Motors will be building
in China.
Unbelievable.
BEAM ME UP--TEACHERS
IN AMERICA CANNOT EVEN MENTION GOD?
June 19, 1998
Mr. Speaker, Mildred Rosario, a sixth grade teacher in the Bronx, was
fired. Mildred was fired for attempting to comfort her students over the
drowning loss of a fellow classmate by simply saying he was in heaven.
Mildred was fired for saying, I quote, he was in heaven.
Unbelievable.
In America teachers can pass out condoms in school. Teachers can pass
out needles. Teachers can even have forums and discussions on devil worship.
But in America teachers cannot even mention God.
Beam me up.
A Nation that can discuss devil worship in our schools but cannot even
mention God is a Nation that has lost both its sense of values and its
sense of common sense.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back any problems we have in our schools.
WE MUST DEAL WITH
NORTH KOREAN MISSILE SALES
June 17, 1998
Mr. Speaker, more threats from Communists: North Korea said, `We will
sell missiles to your enemies, and if you want to stop us, Uncle Sam,
you will have to pay us.'
Unbelievable.
Sources say that North Korea believes there is a softening of resolve
in Washington. Evidently, North Korea believes that a White House that
will make no demands on China after China threatened Taiwan and Los Angeles
is a White House that will make no demands on communists, my colleagues.
Beam me up. North Korea would never say in-your-face threats to Ronald
Reagan.
Congress better look at these foreign entanglements that endanger our
national sovereignty.
I yield back any missiles pointed at America.
INTERNATIONAL
MONETARY FUND IS NOT A LOAN PROGRAM
June 16, 1998
Mr. Speaker, Japan is beating the White House like a drum. Check this
out: Japan lets the yen hit rock bottom, making Japanese products lower
than a Dolly Parton wonder bra, forcing Japan's Asian rivals to dial 911
for Uncle Sam, who has already given $120 billion from the International
Monetary Fund to bail out Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia.
And, you guessed it, the White House says, they need it and the White
House wants $18 billion more for IMF.
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. Let us tell it like it is. This International
Monetary Fund does not look like a loan program to me. It is starting
to look like international welfare, and Japan is cashing the food stamps
while they laugh all the way to the bank with our dollars.
You think about that, and I yield back the 207 points of fright on Wall
Street.
BILL OF RIGHTS
APPLIES TO TAXPAYERS, TOO
June 11, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the IRS and Treasury Department want to soften the language
of the burden of proof provision in the IRS reform bill. Let us tell it
like it is. The administration wants the accused taxpayer to remain under
the gun.
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.
If `innocent until proven guilty' is good enough for the murderers of
Jasper, Texas, good enough for Charlie Trie in China, good enough for
Bill Clinton, then innocent until proven guilty is good enough for mom
and dad, good enough for grandma and grandpa, good enough for he and she,
you and me, good enough for my colleagues' constituent and for my constituent.
Mr. Speaker, they should keep their hands off that provision. It is the
only real discipline in the reform bill. The Bill of Rights should apply
to taxpayers, too. With that, I yield back any common sense left and advise
the administration to come clean.
HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY
IN CHINA COULD TURN TO DESPAIR IF THE PRESIDENT STANDS WITH COMMUNISTS
IN TIANANMEN SQUARE
June 10, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the President said if China wants a ceremony in Tiananmen
Square, so be it; it is not my place to make demands on Communist China.
Unbelievable. When the leader of the free world stands with Communists
on the very same site where young Chinese students gave their lives struggling
for democracy, something is wrong, very wrong, and the hope and inspiration
for democracy that once existed in China may turn into disgust and despair.
Let us tell it like it is. If the President can stonewall Kenneth Starr,
the President can stonewall the butchers of Tiananmen Square.
And one last word: The Berlin Wall would still be standing if Ronald Reagan
made no demands on Communists.
KEEP THE WORKERS
AND GET RID OF THE TOP DOGS AND FAT CATS
June 9, 1998
Mr. Speaker, last year the top dog at Bank One made $9 million. The big
barker at Edison Brothers made $5 million. The kennel master at K-Mart
made $6 million.
Mr. Speaker, if that is not enough to potty train a Rottweiler, the big
Doberman at AT&T made $26 million, and do my colleagues know what
he did? He got rid of 23,000 workers at AT&T.
Unbelievable.
Big dogs go
to the penthouse, American workers go to the dog house.
I think these companies are all screwed up. I think they should keep the
workers and get rid of the fat cats at the top.
And listen to this very carefully: I say they can hire CEO's a lot cheaper
in Mexico, too. Think about that.
SERBIAN PRESIDENT
MILOSEVIC
June 3, 1998
Mr. Speaker, when Serbian President Milosevic promised to work with Albanian
leaders in Kosovo, the White House lifted sanctions on Serbia. Milosevic
then proceeded to slaughter thousands of ethnic Albanians, many of them
helpless women and children.
Milosevic is a liar, Milosevic is a brutal killer, and ethnic cleansing
has reared its ugly head once again. Milosevic must be challenged. The
United States should reimpose strict sanctions on Serbia, and it is time
for Europe to stop coddling this bum. I believe Milosevic must be made
to understand that Albanian children are God's children, too.
PARENTS, WITH
GOD'S HELP, RAISE OUR CHILDREN
May 22, 1998
Mr. Speaker, another tragedy in our schools: more expert analysis.
One group said America should heed the advice of the First Lady when she
said it takes a community to raise a child. I do not mean to be disrespectful,
but I disagree.
Communities do not raise a child; PTAs do not raise a child; schools do
not raise a child; day care centers and summer camps do not raise a child.
My colleagues, the awesome responsibility of raising a child is still
the parents. Parents raise our children.
Maybe if America got back to basics and placed more emphasis on parents
instead of communities, our kids would be much better off. If the community
wants to help, they might allow God back into our schools. Parents, with
the help of God, will be much more effective raising our kids.
WAR ON DRUGS REQUIRES
MORE THAN `NEIGHBORHOOD CRIME WATCH' MENTALITY
May 21, 1998
Mr. Speaker, today the House will cast the key vote on the war on drugs.
The House will vote to either maintain the status quo and do nothing,
or begin to fight.
Some of the misconceptions and untruths about the Traficant amendment:
It will not mandate the use of troops; it will only allow it if the administration
requests it, and if so, they must be specially trained, and they can only
be deployed with civilian officers, and they cannot make arrests; local
officials must be notified.
The substitute kills it. The substitute says, surveillance in intelligence
only.
I say to my colleagues, neighborhood crime watches perform surveillance.
We will never win the war on drugs with a neighborhood crime watch.
Defeat the substitute. Give the Traficant amendment an opportunity for
an up/down vote.
SUPPORT H.R. 692
TO APPOINT INDEPENDENT COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE
GOVERNMENT WRONGDOING
May 20, 1998
Mr. Speaker, Federal agents killed his dog, they killed his 14-year-old
son, and they killed his wife.
Federal agents said they did not like his politics.
Randy Weaver is a white separatist. My colleagues do not like his politics,
I do not like Weaver's politics either, but that is no
reason for the government to gun down his family.
Let me tell my colleagues something. This does not sound like the FBI
of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. This sounds like the KGB of Joseph Stalin.
To make matters worse, a Federal judge dropped all charges against the
FBI agent who shot Vicky Weaver right between the eyes while clutching
her infant son. Shame, my colleagues. Congress, the Justice Department
investigates themselves and then they cover their assets every time.
We are a bunch of fools. It is time to put our government in order. Support
H.R. 692 and put an independent counsel on these types of cases. Shame,
Congress. No American family should be gunned down.
CONGRESS MUST
INVESTIGATE CHINESE POLITICAL DONATIONS
May 19, 1998
Madam Speaker, California businessman Johnny Chung gave $300,000 to the
Democrat National Committee. Chung said he got the money from a member
of the Chinese army.
Surprise. This is the same guy Chung who said, my donations are subway
tokens for a train ride to the White House. Train ride, folks. How about
a free ride? Maybe a joy ride.
Let us tell it like it is. This is not about tokens, coffees, the Lincoln
bedroom, Bill Clinton, Democrats or Republicans. This is about national
security, folks. And Americans did not give their lives in foreign wars
to have the Chinese Communists buy our freedom. Beam me up. Congress must
investigate this Chinese connection.
I yield back what national security I have left.
A QUESTION OF
NATIONAL SECURITY
May 13, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the White House slapped sanctions on India because India
was conducting nuclear tests.
Unbelievable. It is like Mike Tyson beating up Woody Allen for failing
to fight.
India is not the problem, White House; China is the problem. And the White
House policy with China is now not only stupid, Congress, it is dangerous.
China, with our tax dollars, is destabilizing and threatening the entire
world, and we are putting sanctions on India for protecting themselves.
Beam me up. The truth of the matter is, this White House does not have
the balsam to confront the real problem, which is China, so they kick
India around.
I say it is time, Congress, to develop a sound strategy and show some
anatomy. We should rescind MFN for China. It is not just about trade,
Congress, it is about national security.
CHINA RIPPING
AMERICA OFF $60 BILLION A YEAR
May 12, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the trade representative said, and I quote: China is guilty,
guilty of attaching fraudulent `Made in America' labels to Chinese made
products. She said she was surprised and, as a result, we are hitting
China with a $94 million maximum penalty.
Wow. What a surprise. Every worker in America knows that China has been
ripping us off, ripping us off to the tune of now $60 billion a year.
If that is not enough to stir your home fries, check this out. China is
building the biggest army and the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world
with our tax dollars. Think about it.
Look, if the trade representative thinks that $94 million is a lot of
money to China, then I believe she thinks that Viagra is a waterfall in
West Virginia, folks. They do not know what the hell is going on. Beam
me up with this policy.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back what national security and common sense we have
left.
PUT PRAYER BACK
IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
April 29, 1998
Mr. Speaker, after the Arkansas tragedy where four students and a teacher
were killed by two youngsters, the shooting death of Pennsylvania teacher
John Gillette has shocked America. Experts are confused and, they say,
searching for answers. The irony is these same experts, with all their
degrees, have one thing in common: most of them oppose school prayer.
In fact, time and time again, they have employed constitutional mumbo
jumbo to kill school prayer.
They just do not get it. A school without God is a school without education.
A school without God is a school without discipline.
A school without God is a school without values, ladies and gentlemen.
Maybe experts will finally get the message that a school without God is
a playground for the demon. The Congress should allow school prayer.
I yield back any common sense left in Washington.
REFORM THE IRS
April 28, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the IRS is trying to kill reform. They are bringing out the
big guns, Congress. The Treasury Department says, and I quote, whistle
blowers are lying. The IRS is really doing a good job.
Unbelievable. Tell that to the families of Alex Consul and Bruce Baron,
both of whom committed suicide. Tell me, how many more Americans must
commit suicide? How many more American families must be destroyed? Who
is kidding whom? The tail is wagging the dog in America, and Uncle Sam
is now barking the praises of the IRS. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.
No American should fear our government. The most important thing the Congress
of the United States can do this year is reform the IRS. With that, I
yield back any guts left in this great, august deliberative body.
COMMON SENSE LACKING
IN POLITICIANS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
April 23, 1998
Mr. Speaker, in America, Communists can work in our defense plants, illegal
immigrants who jump the fence can get citizenship, there are law libraries
for mass murderers; some want free condoms for school children, and some
now want free needles for drug addicts. Think about it. Free condoms,
free needles, but in America, no school prayer. Is it any wonder the streets
of America are full of narcotics and blood?
The founders believed that a Nation without prayer would be a Nation without
God. I agree. The Congress should pass school prayer.
I yield back the balance of any common sense left in any of the politicians
in Washington, D.C.
BEST FOREIGN POLICY
IN CHINA'S HISTORY
April 22, 1998
Mr. Speaker, with $60 billion, China buys California naval bases, missiles,
attack aircraft, nuclear submarines. If that is not enough to tax your
limitation, China then sells missiles to Iran and Pakistan to get more
money, and then they use that money to control the Panama Canal.
Now, if that is not enough, folks, check this out: An American company
recently gave missile secrets to China that the Pentagon admits these
secrets can help China hit every American city right between the eyes
with one of their nuclear missiles. Beam me up.
When is the White House going to realize that America has crafted the
best foreign policy in China's history?
I yield back the balance of any common sense left in our Capitol.
EXPANDING NAFTA
TO CENTRAL AMERICA
April 21, 1998
Mr. Speaker, somebody is inhaling. Since NAFTA, American TVs and typewriters
are made in Mexico; American telephones are made in Singapore; computers
are made in China and Japan. And after all this, the White House wants
to expand this NAFTA madness to all of Central America.
Now, here is how I predict it will work. Central America will get jobs
and investment. Uncle Sam will get a pink slip, training voucher, and
two free lunches to Taco Bell. Beam me up. This is not free trade. This
is a joke, a dirty joke on American workers.
I yield back another record trade deficit and 1.4 million American workers
who filed individual bankruptcy in America last year, another record I
might add. Think about it.
NEEDS OF NATIONAL
SECURITY BRAIN TRUST
April 1, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the Pentagon says China and Russia are engaged in a nuclear
arms race. They say both China and Russia can hit every city in America
with a ballistic missile.
Now, if that is not enough to cause you to fall on your sword, the Pentagon
further says Russia and China are doing this with American dollars.
Unbelievable. Let us check this out. China gets $60 billion in MFN from
Uncle Sam. Russia gets $15 billion in foreign aid from Uncle Sam. In exchange,
Uncle Sam gets nuclear missiles pointed at our cities, two tape decks
and three cases of vodka.
Beam me up. I say our national security brain trust needs a proctologist
on staff.
FLORIDA FIXES
THEIR ELECTRIC CHAIR
March 31, 1998
Mr. Speaker, Daniel Remeya said he killed people for the fun of it. In
1985 he killed a clerk for $50. Two days later he killed a grocery clerk.
Two days after that he killed a restaurant manager. That same day he killed
two repair men, my colleagues. Now, after all that his attorneys said
Florida's electric chair does not work properly, constituting cruel and
unusual punishment, therefore Remeya should be spared.
Beam me up.
I want to commend Florida for, No. 1, fixing their electric chair; and,
No. 2, for using the electric chair on this creep who killed innocent
victims for the fun of it.
Good night, sweet prince.
I say one last thing, Congress. An America that gives murderers three
square meals, a roof and a law library is an America that will continue
to have mass murderers. I yield back all the carnage in our cities.
THE CONSTITUTION
NEVER INTENDED TO BAN SCHOOL PRAYER
March 30, 1998
Mr. Speaker, America is still in shock. Two boys, age 11 and 13, gunned
down four young students in a middle school in Arkansas, and the experts
are asking what happened to parents? What happened to values? What happened
to our schools?
Schools are overrun with drugs, violence, guns, rape, murder, and now
even mass murder. It seems America's schools have everything, Congress,
everything except prayer. Maybe the so-called experts might finally realize
that a nation that denies God in our schools is a nation that encourages
the devil in our schools. The Constitution never, never intended to ban
school prayer and never intended to separate God and the American people.
Think about it.
ECONOMISTS' CLAIMS
OF JOB AVAILABILITY BOGGLES THE MIND
March 27, 1998
Madam Speaker, economists say there are jobs everywhere. Check this out:
messenger singer, press clipping cut-and-paster, sandwich signboard carrier,
drive-in theater specialist, dust collector, pretzel twister, pantyhose
crotch specialist.
Madam Speaker, I suggest there be a new job title called `sleeper specialist,'
because it is evident even when these economists are working, they are
sleeping on the job.
Madam Speaker, I would like to just yield back all the boxer shorts sorters
and the brassiere cup molders.
Beam me up.
Madam Speaker, if these are jobs, I am a fashion leader.
SECURING BORDERS
FOR AMERICAN PEOPLE
March 26, 1998
Mr. Speaker, a classified U.S. Government report says that Mexico's military
is allowing massive shipments of narcotics into America. Wow, what a surprise.
Barney Fife even knows that, folks. Let us tell it like it is.
Mexico is the biggest drug pusher in the world, and Uncle Sam is the world's
biggest junkie. Shame, Congress. It is time to stop this narcotic madness.
Number one, Congress should absolutely repeal NAFTA; and number two, if
Congress can ensure the securing of borders in Bosnia, Western Europe,
the Mideast, and Korea, then, by God, Congress should be able to secure
the borders for the American people.
Think about that. This narcotics business is not hard to figure out.
I yield back all the balance of overdoses in our cities throughout the
country.
CONGRESS BETTER
START DOING SOMETHING ABOUT JOBS
March 25, 1998
Mr. Speaker, every day the American people are told how great the economy
is. I do not buy it. Let us check the scoreboard. In 1995 900,000 Americans
filed for bankruptcy. In 1996 1,100,000 filed for bankruptcy. And last
year 1,400,000-plus filed for bankruptcy. Total bustout `morgueville,'
belly up. A 20 percent increase in one year.
What is worse, our kids are moving to Mexico to find work. They cannot
find it around here. Take Boeing, for example, please. They laid off 18,000
workers since December. What is next, Congress? Will we be told that El
Nino is good for the economy?
Beam me up.
Mr. Speaker, I think Congress better start doing something about jobs
in America.
BORIS YELTSIN
NEEDS COUNSELING, NOT MONITORING
March 24, 1998
Mr. Speaker, in 1993, Boris Yeltsin fell off a stage in Germany. In 1994,
Boris could not get off his plane in Ireland. In 1996, Boris came up missing
for 7 consecutive days, unexplained, before an election. In 1997, he forgot
about a meeting with Vice President Al Gore. Yesterday, he fired his entire
cabinet. The White House says they are monitoring it.
Mr. Speaker, is Boris Yeltsin a victim of El Nino, too? Let us tell it
like it is. This guy is not exactly the head of Kiwanis International.
Boris Yeltsin has his shaky little finger on the button of one of the
world's most massive nuclear arsenals.
I say monitor this, Boris Yeltsin does not need monitors. Boris Yeltsin
needs Alcoholics Anonymous. I say let us save our foreign aid and let
us send some counselors over to take care of this guy. I yield back 1
day at a time the balance my time.
IRS SENSITIVITY
TRAINING
March 19, 1998
Mr. Speaker, IRS reform has taken on a whole new spin. The Vice President
now wants the IRS to undergo sensitivity training, and the other body
wants the taxpayers to pay for it.
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. Who is kidding whom? There can be no reform of
the IRS without changing the burden of proof and without requiring the
IRS to get a warrant before they rip off our homes. Let us tell it like
it is. The IRS does not need more fine tuning. The IRS needs an overhaul,
big-time, and taxpayers should not pay for it.
As far as the Vice President's sensitivity training program, it sounds
just ducky. But quite frankly, Scarlet, I yield back all the hugs and
kisses at the IRS.
TRUST BUT VERIFY
March 18, 1998
Mr. Speaker, 2 years ago the White House told China, If you promise to
stop selling missiles to terrorist nations, we will give you most favored
nation trade status; and China said, Good, that's great. Okay.
Last year the White House said, Look, you are breaking your promise, China;
you are selling missiles to Iran and Iraq. Come on. They said, Okay, you
are right. This time we will stop.
This year the White House has just announced that they are going to share
our nuclear technology programs with China because China has promised
to stop this madness, and they said this time China really means it.
Beam me up. These are not promises; these are lies. I would like to say
one thing. Somebody is inhaling over at the White House with this program
with China. We are financing the biggest national security threat in our
history, Mr. Speaker. I think Ronald Reagan's words `trust but verify'
should be taken to heart in this Congress.
CARNAGE OF NAFTA
GOES ON AND ON
March 17, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the carnage of NAFTA goes on. Thompson Electric is laying
off a thousand workers and moving to Mexico. Bass Shoe Company is laying
off 350 workers and moving to the Caribbean. Mitsubishi Electric is moving
to Mexico. Matsui Battery is moving to Mexico. Kobe Steel is moving to
Mexico. Sanyo Plastics is moving to Mexico.
Divisions of Sony and Hitachi are moving to Mexico. Asahi Glass is moving
to Mexico. And Fuji Electric is on their way to Mexico. And not to be
left behind in America, Samsung of Korea is moving to Mexico.
Free trade, my assets. The American worker is getting screwed, and Uncle
Sam is passing out cigars. Beam me up. If this is free trade, then I am
a fashion leader.
ALBANIANS IN KOSOVA
ARE TARGET OF GENOCIDE
March 12, 1998
Mr. Speaker, systematic, brutal genocide has once again reared its ugly
head. Ethnic Albanians in Kosova are being slaughtered. And after all
this, an official at the State Department referred to Albanian freedom
fighters as terrorists.
Shame, Mr. Speaker.
I hope I am wrong. I hope I am wrong. But it appears that the State Department
is justifying the brutal killing behavior of a dictator called Milosevic
and by doing so is legitimizing the slaughter of innocent men, women and
children of Albanian descent.
Beware, Congress. This matter in Kosova can be the next Bosnia. I would
also like to add that Albanian men, women and children are God's children
as well.
One last reminder. England referred to George Washington years and years
ago as a terrorist.
CONGRESS MUST
STEP IN AND SOLVE IRS ABUSE
March 11, 1998
Imagine this, Mr. Speaker. The IRS kicks down your door without a warrant
and takes everything. Then the IRS, without a warrant, raids your partner's
home. They arrest him at gunpoint in front of his small children and take
everything. Then the IRS goes to your business, they question your customers,
they threaten your employees, they take everything that is not nailed
down.
Sound incredible? Not for the IRS. It was later ruled that the IRS was
guilty, guilty, guilty. Guilty of assault, guilty of illegal search and
seizure and guilty of false imprisonment.
Beam me up, Congress. When the IRS starts acting like Nazis, that is right,
listen to the word, Nazis, Congress must step in and Congress must solve
this dilemma for the American people.
I am asking you to cosponsor H.R. 3277, my bill that will stop illegal
searches and illegal seizures.
NO FEAR OF GOVERNMENT
FOR AMERICANS
March 10, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the IRS says, do not change the law. Taxpayers should remain
guilty in a civil tax case.
Unbelievable.
Let me remind Members of the recent testimony of an IRS employee before
the other body about IRS reform. She demanded that she be behind a screen
to hide her identity and she said she must have a voice scrambler to disguise
her voice. I want to quote what she said, Mr. Speaker. `I am afraid. I
am afraid of retaliation by the Internal Revenue Service' that she worked
for.
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. No American should fear their government, and
let me say this to Congress. There can be no true substantive reform of
the Internal Revenue Service without shifting the burden of proof to the
government in a civil tax case. We know it, the IRS knows it, I know it,
and by God, the American people know it, and the American people demand
it.
ON THE CUTTING
EDGE IN DEALING WITH RAPISTS
March 4, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the Oklahoma Senate passed a bill to allow castration of
convicted rapists. That is right.
Castration. Opponents say it is cruel. Victims say it is about time. I
say hats off, and anything else off, to the Oklahoma Senate.
Maybe, just maybe, Mr. Speaker, rapists will not only think twice, they
will start thinking 3 and 4 times before they brutalize our constituents.
I also would like to say that no matter how you slice this, Mr. Speaker,
Oklahoma is on the cutting edge when it comes to dealing with rapists.
For those who say, `How do you really feel, Jim?' I recommend that Oklahoma
go a step further. Put it into law, then hire Lorena Bobbitt to administer
the program.
I yield back whatever might be left after Oklahoma is done with rapists.
MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL
RECRUITING STREET GANGS
March 3, 1998
Mr. Speaker, according to reports, Mexico's drug cartel is recruiting
American kids in street gangs in the city of San Diego. That is right.
California has become the new breeding ground for Mexican drug traffickers.
Unbelievable.
While the Pentagon last year spent $3 billion in Bosnia and Iraq, the
Pentagon has announced they are going to suspend their operations on our
borders. Beam me up. Let us put the seed corn where the fertilizer can
reach it, Mr. Speaker. If Congress can spend billions of dollars to secure
foreign borders for foreign citizens in foreign lands, then the Congress
of the United
States can secure the border in America for the American people. I just
have one thing to say to the Pentagon. Suspend this.
Are we inhaling or what?
REFORM THE IRS
February 26, 1998
Mr. Speaker, unbelievable, the IRS admits it is wrong and vows to fix
it. That is right, they said no more taking of property by individual
agents, only district directors of the IRS can seize your property.
How nice of those computer bullies. Think about it. Instead of getting
shafted by a little guy at the IRS, you will now get shafted by a big
shot at the IRS. Beam me up.
I say it is time to tell the IRS to seize this, my bill, that requires
judicial consent before those backstabbing, bric-a-bracken, Constitution-bending
thieves destroy any more lives in our country, and that bill should be
added to the conference report of the reform bill for the IRS.
LEGISLATION MUST
ENSURE THAT HEINOUS CRIMES RECEIVE APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT
February 25, 1998
Madam Speaker, 20 years ago Larry Singleton picked up Mary Vincent. Singleton
raped her, and to escape discovery, chopped off her hands and threw Mary
into a ditch for her to bleed to death. Mary survived and helped convict
this bum.
Larry Singleton was out in 8 years, Congress. Yesterday Mary Vincent,
in a courtroom with two metal hands, fingered Singleton once again, because,
you see, 20 years later, Larry Singleton picked up Roxanne Hayes. He raped
her, and to make sure he did not get caught, he executed her.
Beam me up. Enough is enough. Eight years. We have victims screaming out
from graves all over America, and Congress is coddling to criminals. It
is time for Congress to look at the rights of the victims, not the murderers.
It is time to legislate that those life sentence people who murder again
do not get another life sentence. They get put to death.
WE NEED ALLIED
SUPPORT IN IRAQ
February 24, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the American people are saying if military action is needed
in Iraq, America should not do it alone, and the American people are right.
The days of sending American soldiers overseas with a rifle on their shoulder
and a credit card in their pocket just does not cut it anymore, Mr. Speaker,
especially when many of our so-called allies sit on the sidelines and
shout Yankee go home to boot.
Kofi Annan is to be commended for his efforts. It sounds good. But in
any event, I think the wise words of Ronald Reagan apply here: Trust but
verify; trust but verify.
But I will not, Mr. Speaker, support military action unless our allies
are on the battlefield with us. We represent Uncle Sam; we do not represent
Uncle Sucker.
ON MEXICO
February 12, 1998
Mr. Speaker, a CIA report says Mexico's powerful Interior Minister is
dirty. He is tied to drug cartels and he turned a blind eye to drug trafficking.
A blind eye to 7 tons of narcotics crossing the border every single day,
14,000 pounds?
After all this, the White House is officially certifying Mexico as a cooperating
partner in our war on drugs. Unbelievable. Some war on drugs. The Interior
Minister is dirty.
Their last drug czar was on the cartel's payroll, and 14,000 pounds a
day are poisoning America. Beam me up. Evidently there is not as much
testosterone at the White House as there is rumored to be. I say, let
us secure our borders with the military who are falling out of chairs
without armrests overseas.
Let us straighten out our country, Congress. And let us declare war on
narcotics.
USE AMERICAN TROOPS
TO GUARD AMERICAN BORDER
February 11, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the Immigration and Naturalization Service in some of their
offices have error rates as high as 99 percent in reviewing applications,
according to a recent study. In addition, 13,000 immigrants bought citizenship
with illegal payoffs and bribes.
Now, if that is not enough to compromise your disgust, check this out:
The INS says keep the military off the borders, Congress.
Unbelievable. These same bungling, incompetent nincompoops who have allowed
heroin and cocaine to be easier to get than aspirin, who have our borders
overrun with illegal immigrants, now want the border all to themselves.
Beam me up. The American people want Congress to secure our borders. Let
me say this, Congress: If American troops can guard borders for the United
Nations all over the world, American troops can guard the American border
at home for the American people.
I think we should investigate those bungling nincompoops at the INS.
I yield back the 1 percent positive rate they have.
ACCESS TO THE
WHITE HOUSE BY COMMUNIST CHINESE IS DANGEROUS
February 5, 1998
Madam Speaker, while everybody in Washington is talking about a fly on
our face, an elephant may be eating our assets.
Charlie Trie was indicted for illegal campaign contributions. The indictment
reads: Charlie Trie helped to purchase access to high-level government
officials with illegal contributions from foreign sources. Foreign sources.
Chinese communists.
Think about it. Charlie Trie was not soliciting money from the Rotary.
Charlie Trie was soliciting money from communist China.
Beam me up.
And while everybody may be talking about access to the White House by
sexy interns and how sensational that is, access to the White House by
communist China is dangerous.
Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of any nationality sovereignty
we have left.
INTERNET NEEDS
A CHASTITY CHIP
February 4, 1998
Mr. Speaker, what a world. Frazzled Frances Wyndham believes she got pregnant
during a sexy e-mail exchange by a paramour 1,500 miles away. That is
right: pregnant.
Frances said, and I quote, `His words were so sexy, I was totally seduced.'
Talk about instant connection. This is immaculate reception, Mr. Speaker.
And if that is not enough to crash our hard drive, think about the legal
implications. What is next? Bill Gates paying child support? Microsoft,
my eye.
Mr. Speaker, it is time for Congress to act. The computers do not need
a V-chip; Internet needs a chastity chip. I would say, `Beam me up,' but
that may be a new delivery system for e-mail.
KARLA FAYE TUCKER
DESERVES THE DEATH PENALTY
February 3, 1998
Mr. Speaker, Karla Faye Tucker, who is scheduled to be executed tonight,
has asked for clemency. This is the same Karla Faye Tucker who brutally
murdered two helpless victims with a pick ax, no less. At that trial,
Karla Faye testified, and I quote, that she `enjoyed every single killing
stroke' and that she knowingly did not pay any attention to the screams
and pleas of her dying victims.
But now, Karla Faye has found the Lord and she begs for mercy. Beam me
up, Mr. Speaker. Who now speaks for the innocent victims of Karla Faye
Tucker? I say good night, sweet princess. Karla Faye Tucker has deserved
the death penalty.
She earned it with every single enjoyable killing stroke on those helpless
victims.
Think about it. An America that tolerates and coddles murderers will continue
to have them.
IRS REFORM
January 28, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the IRS has finally confessed. A spokesman admitted, and
I quote: `IRS seizure practices are unfair.' He further said that the
IRS is now starting a new program. Check this out: Under this new program,
the IRS district director must approve all seizures. Unbelievable. The
IRS district director is now the sole judge, jury and executioner of our
property. Beam me up. I now know why the IRS actually could look in the
mirror and believe they are consumer friendly.
Mr. Speaker, they believe all taxpayers are nothing more than a bunch
of masochists. Support my legislation that will require judicial consent
and approval before the IRS can grab our assets. I yield back the balance
of any money we have left.
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